Dresden 2014 – wissenschaftliches Programm

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DS: Fachverband Dünne Schichten

DS 29: Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics V (joint session with CPP, HL, O)

DS 29.9: Vortrag

Mittwoch, 2. April 2014, 17:15–17:30, ZEU 260

Continuously tunable organic semiconductor distributed Feedback (DFB) lasers as an example for optical components built from shape-memory polymers — •Senta Schauer¹, Xin Liu², Tobias Meier¹, Marc Schneider¹, Matthias Worgull¹, Uli Lemmer^{1, 2}, and Hendrik Hölscher¹ — ¹Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Microstructure Technology, Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 1, 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany — ²Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Light Technology Institute, Engesserstraße 13, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany

Phase gratings are important tools for many applications in optics and photonics, e.g., they serve as resonators in DFB-lasers. We manufactured Bragg gratings from a shape-memory polymer (SMP) to tune their period over a wide range without any mechanical components. SMPs can remember a predefined shape and recover to it even after strong deformations, if they are triggered by a stimulus. We used the polyurethane Tecoflex(R), which is a thermally triggered SMP, to fabricate nanostructured gratings via hot embossing. After stretching, these gratings feature an increased period which shrinks back to its original length after the activation of the recovery process. In order to demonstrate the practical applicability of these gratings as useful components for photonics, we successfully fabricated continuously tunable DFB-lasers based on SMP grating substrates with Alq3:DCM serving as active material. By changing the grating period via the shape-memory effect, the emitted wavelength of the laser changes likewise. So far we demonstrated shifts of the emission spectrum by 30nm.