High brightness diode-pumped organic solid-state laser

Laser organique solide pompé par diode

Zhuang Zhao (1) , Oussama Mhibik (1) , Malik Nafa (1) , Sébastien Chénais (1) , Sébastien Forget (1)

1 LPL - Laboratoire de Physique des Lasers

High-power, diffraction-limited organic solid-state laser operation has been achieved in a vertical external cavity surface-emitting organic laser (VECSOL), pumped by a low-cost compact blue laser diode. The diode-pumped VECSOLs were demonstrated with various dyes in a polymer matrix, leading to laser emissions from 540 nm to 660 nm. Optimization of both the pump pulse duration and output coupling leads to a pump slope efficiency of 11% for a DCM based VECSOLs. We report output pulse energy up to 280 nJ with 100 ns long pump pulses, leading to a peak power of 3.5 W in a circularly symmetric, diffraction-limited beam.

Mots clés: organic materials; diode pumping

Mots clés: laser; materiaux organiques; pompage par diode

Domaines: Optique [physics.optics]

Zhuang Zhao, Oussama Mhibik, Malik Nafa, Sébastien Chénais, Sébastien Forget. High brightness diode-pumped organic solid-state laser. Applied Physics Letters, 2015, 106, pp.51112. ⟨10.1063/1.4907318⟩. ⟨hal-01117022⟩