Co-extruded mechanically tunable multilayer elastomer laser

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Abstract

We have fabricated and studied mechanically tunable elastomer dye lasers constructed in large area sheets by a single-step layer-multiplying co-extrusion process. The laser films consist of a central dye-doped (Rhodamine-6G) elastomer layer between two 128-layer distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) films comprised of alternating elastomer layers with different refractive indices. The central gain layer is formed by folding the coextruded DBR film to enclose a dye-doped skin layer. By mechanically stretching the elastomer laser film from 0{\%} to 19{\%}, a tunable miniature laser source was obtained with $\sim $50 nm continuous tunability from red to green.

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Authors

  • Michael Crescimanno

    Dept. of Physics, Youngstown State U., Dept. of Phys. and Astro., YSU

  • Guilin Mao

    Dept. of Physics, Youngstown State U.

  • James Andrews

    Dept of Physics, Youngstown State U.

  • Kenneth Singer

    Physics, Case Western Reserve U.

  • Eric Baer

    Pennsylvania State University, Lincoln University, NHMFL, Brookhaven National Laboratory, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, The University of Akron, Wayne State University, Physics Department, John Carroll University, Case Western Reserve University, Marietta College, SciPrint.org, High Performance Technologies, Inc., Air Force Institute of Technology, Johannes-Gutenberg-Universit\"at, Mainz, Germany, Martin-Luther-Universit\"at, Halle, Germany, Northwestern University, Youngstown State University, Dept. of Polymer Science, The University of Akron, X-ray Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, NIST Center for Neutron Research, Electrical Engineering, Youngs. State U., Macromolecular, Case Western Reserve U.

  • Eric Baer

    Pennsylvania State University, Lincoln University, NHMFL, Brookhaven National Laboratory, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, The University of Akron, Wayne State University, Physics Department, John Carroll University, Case Western Reserve University, Marietta College, SciPrint.org, High Performance Technologies, Inc., Air Force Institute of Technology, Johannes-Gutenberg-Universit\"at, Mainz, Germany, Martin-Luther-Universit\"at, Halle, Germany, Northwestern University, Youngstown State University, Dept. of Polymer Science, The University of Akron, X-ray Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, NIST Center for Neutron Research, Electrical Engineering, Youngs. State U., Macromolecular, Case Western Reserve U.

  • Eric Baer

    Pennsylvania State University, Lincoln University, NHMFL, Brookhaven National Laboratory, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, The University of Akron, Wayne State University, Physics Department, John Carroll University, Case Western Reserve University, Marietta College, SciPrint.org, High Performance Technologies, Inc., Air Force Institute of Technology, Johannes-Gutenberg-Universit\"at, Mainz, Germany, Martin-Luther-Universit\"at, Halle, Germany, Northwestern University, Youngstown State University, Dept. of Polymer Science, The University of Akron, X-ray Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, NIST Center for Neutron Research, Electrical Engineering, Youngs. State U., Macromolecular, Case Western Reserve U.

  • Eric Baer

    Pennsylvania State University, Lincoln University, NHMFL, Brookhaven National Laboratory, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, The University of Akron, Wayne State University, Physics Department, John Carroll University, Case Western Reserve University, Marietta College, SciPrint.org, High Performance Technologies, Inc., Air Force Institute of Technology, Johannes-Gutenberg-Universit\"at, Mainz, Germany, Martin-Luther-Universit\"at, Halle, Germany, Northwestern University, Youngstown State University, Dept. of Polymer Science, The University of Akron, X-ray Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, NIST Center for Neutron Research, Electrical Engineering, Youngs. State U., Macromolecular, Case Western Reserve U.