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JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS
Volume 98, Issue 8, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.2085311
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We report the solid-state optical gain characteristics of a spiroanthracenefluorene polymer, namely, poly(9-spiro(10,10-bis(2-ethylhexyl)-10H-anthracene)fluorene) (PEHSAF), specifically designed for thermal stability. An efficient stimulated emission occurs at lambda=445 nm under amplified spontaneous emission conditions for asymmetric slab waveguide structures. The modal gain and propagation loss coefficients were found to be g <= 38 cm(-1) and alpha=0.8 cm(-1), respectively. The PEHSAF stimulated emission characteristics are shown to be thermally stable in vacuo for temperatures up to 250 degrees C. Surface-emitting distributed feedback lasers have been fabricated by spin-coating PEHSAF onto one-dimensional grating structures. The lasers operate in the blue spectral region and exhibit low oscillation thresholds (>= 18 nJ) and relatively high slope efficiencies (<= 5%). Varying the PEHSAF film thickness allows the tuning of the emission wavelength within a 16 nm window.
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