Operating characteristics of a traveling-wave semiconducting polymer optical amplifier

G. Heliotis; D. D.C. Bradley; M. Goossens; S. Richardson; G. A. Turnbull; I. D.W. Samuel

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Operating characteristics of a traveling-wave semiconducting polymer optical amplifier

G. Heliotis, D. D.C. Bradley, M. Goossens, S. Richardson, G. A. Turnbull, I. D.W. Samuel

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We report a study of light amplification in dilute solutions of the semiconducting polymer poly(9,9-dioctylfluorene-co-benzothiadiazole) (F8BT). The operating characteristics of the F8BT solution amplifier are investigated in detail, and we show that it provides a large optical gain (> across a wide (>48 nm) spectral bandwidth in the green. The saturation characteristics of the amplifier are found to be in excellent agreement with theoretical predictions, allowing an estimate of the F8BT stimulated emission cross-section, σ. We find σ~1.7× 10-16 cm2, comparable with the reported values for established laser dyes and other high-gain conjugated polymers. © 2004 American Institute of Physics.

Original language	English (US)
Journal	Applied Physics Letters
Volume	85
Issue number	25
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1835555
State	Published - Dec 20 2004
Externally published	Yes

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