Incoherent light-emitting device for driving vertical laser cavity
Patent Information
- Authority / Receiving Office
- CN · China
- Patent Type
- Applications(China)
- Current Assignee / Owner
- EASTMAN KODAK CO
- Publication Date
- 2002-11-20
- Estimated Expiration
- Not applicable · inactive patent
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Abstract
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[0001] The invention relates to the field of light-emitting devices, especially solid-state lasers based on organic materials. Background of the invention
[0002] Over the past few years, interest in fabricating solid-state lasers based on organic materials has grown. Laser materials are classified as polymers or small molecules, and use a variety of different cavity structures, such as microcavities (US-A 6,160,828), waveguides, ring microlasers, and distributed feedback (for example, see also G.Kranzelbinder et al. Phys. 63, 729
[2000] and M. Diaz-Garcia et al., US-A-5,881,083). A problem with all these structures is that in order to be lasing, the cavity must be excited by optical pumping with another laser source. Electrically pumped laser cavities are favored because they generally make the structure more compact and easier to modulate.
[0003] The main obstacle to the realization of electrically pumped organic lasers is the small carrier mobility o...