Organic surface emitting laser based on a deep-ultraviolet photopolymer containing thiocyanate groups

Gratings for laser applications are being optically recorded in poly(styrene-co-4-vinylbenzyl thiocyanate) (PST-co-VBT) by deep-ultraviolet lithography (lambda<300 nm). The gratings writing configuration is based on interference patterning of this holographic material. Grating structures can be further stabilized and modified by selective amine reaction from the gas phase. Gratings based on refractive index contrast (Δn∼+0.02) and on thickness modulation (Δd up to 70 nm) are obtainable from this photoreactive polymer. Holographically recorded structures in films of PST-co-VBT doped with a laser dye are designed for second order distributed feedback operation resulting in low threshold organic laser devices (w(L,th)=0.25 μJ cm(-2)) with laser emission output (TE-mode: λ(L)=632 nm) directed perpendicular to the film plane. (C) 2003 American Institute of Physics.