Abstract

Highly luminescent organic solid state systems attract intensive interest as innovative approaches for photonic applications including display and laser technology as well as telecommunication applications.^1,2 In the following we present two types of new polymeric materials for organic device applications. From a novel synthesis route employing polycondensation we obtain an improved quality of MEH-PPV³ and use this π-con- Jugated polymer as the active laser medium in a first-order DFB-laser (fig. 1a). Therefore we make use of the experimental Lloyd-mirror configuration (fig. lb) allowing to control the spectral mode output over the full range of laser device tunability (605 nm <λ₁ < 635 nm). This configuration provides a tool to screen the full set of parameters required for an optimized device design.⁴

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