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 $7\mathrm{ns}$ pulses at $532\mathrm{nm}$ , a diffraction-limited beam ( $M^2=1$ ) was obtained, with a conversion efficiency of 43%; higher peak powers ( $2\mathrm{kW}$ ) could be attained when resorting to shorter ( $0.5\mathrm{ns}$ ) 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 $20\mathrm{nm}$ .

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