THE OPTICAL GAIN MECHANISM IN SOLID CONJUGATED POLYMERS

We report on stimulated emission from a solid conjugated methyl-substituted ladder-type poly(paraphenylene). The threshold for stimulated emission as well as the spectral narrowing is measured. Upon exciting within the low energy tail of the S1-S0 (0–0) absorption band narrow emission lines offset from the excitation by the energies of the dominant vibrational modes are observed. From these measurements we conclude that vibronic sublevels play a major role in the optical gain mechanism. Hence, the gain mechanism can be explained in terms of molecularly excited states.

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