Plastic microring lasers on fibers and wires

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Abstract
Photopumped, pulsed, narrow line laser emission is demonstrated using cylindrical microcavities formed by π-conjugated polymer thin films wrapped around thin glassoptical fibers and metal wires with various diameters D. A variety of cavity-dependent resonant laser mode structures were observed, which for D<10 μ m contain a single resonant spectral line of less than 1 Å in width. The microring lasers are also characterized by a well-defined, very low threshold excitation intensity, at which beam directionality and polarization degree dramatically increase. These findings open up the fields of lasers and fiber optics to organic materials.