Whispering gallery mode microlaser based on a single polymer fiber fabricated by electrospinning

Abstract

Electrospinning is a very simple method of preparing polymer solutions into high performance fibers. In this work, PM597-doped polymer fibers with different diameters have been fabricated by electrospinning technology. Whispering gallery mode (WGM) lasing emission was observed when a 532 nm pulse laser beam radially excited the single electrospun polymer fiber (EPF) created by this method. The distribution of WGMs is also quantitatively confirmed through theoretical calculation. Additionally, the number of WGM laser peaks decrease as the diameter of the EPF decreases. Single longitudinal mode laser emission can be obtained when the EPF diameter decreases to 8.8m. It has also been found that the WGM laser from the single EPF has relatively low thresholds and good lifetime compared to droplet lasers or other fiber lasers. Moreover, EPF networks have unique research prospects in photonic devices, optical pump lasers and biosensing due to their very large surface to volume ratio.

Publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6463/ab39f1
Divisions: College of Engineering & Physical Sciences > Aston Institute of Photonics Technology (AIPT)
College of Engineering & Physical Sciences
Additional Information: © 2019 IOP Publishing Ltd. As the Version of Record of this article is going to be/has been published on a subscription basis, this Accepted Manuscript will be available for reuse under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 licence after a 12 month embargo period. Funding: National Natural Science Foundation of China (11874012, 11404087, 11574070, 51771186, 11404086, 11874126, 61501165); Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities ((JZ2019HGPA0099; PA2018GDQT0006); Project of State Key Laboratory of Environment-friendly Energy Materials, Southwest University of Science and Technology (19fksy0111); Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Environment-friendly Polymer Materials (KF2019001); the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 744817; STCSM; China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2015M571917, 2017T100442).
Uncontrolled Keywords: electrospinning,laser,polymer fiber,whispering gallery mode,Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials,Condensed Matter Physics,Acoustics and Ultrasonics,Surfaces, Coatings and Films
Publication ISSN: 1361-6463
Last Modified: 01 Apr 2024 07:35
Date Deposited: 15 Aug 2019 09:04
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PURE Output Type: Article
Published Date: 2019-09-06
Published Online Date: 2019-08-09
Accepted Date: 2019-08-09
Authors: Chen, Xianxian
Xie, Kang
Hu, Tao Ping
Zhang, Xiaojuan
Yang, Yong
Ma, Jiajun
Zhang, Junxi
Cheng, Xusheng
Hu, Zhijia (ORCID Profile 0000-0002-8960-5318)

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