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Highly efficient, diffraction-limited laser emission from a vertical external-cavity surface-emitting organic laser

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Abstract

We report on a solid-state laser structure functioning as the organic counterpart of a vertical external-cavity surface-emitting laser (VECSEL) design. The gain medium is a poly(methyl methacrylate) film doped with Rhodamine 640, spin casted onto the high-reflectivity mirror of a plano–concave resonator. Upon pumping by 7ns pulses at 532nm, a diffraction-limited beam (M2=1) was obtained, with a conversion efficiency of 43%; higher peak powers (2kW) could be attained when resorting to shorter (0.5ns) pump pulses. The spectrum was controlled by the thickness of the active layer playing the role of an intracavity etalon; tunability is demonstrated at over and up to 20nm.

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