In this work, a temperature tunable capillary-based polymer whispering gallery modes laser was proposed. The WGM laser device was fabricated by filling the liquid polymer into the capillary tubes. Due to the thermal-optic effect of the polymer, the emission wavelength of the laser device can be continuously tuned from 601.4 nm to 581.9 nm with the varying temperature. Moreover, the suppression of modes was observed owing to the two-ring coupling effect in the capillary cavity. The easy-fabricated and very low-cost method of the temperature tunable WGM laser was verified which exhibits the potentiality for applications of photothermic and sensing devices.
The performance of distributed feedback (DFB) polymer lasers was adjusted by changing the cavity coupling. The microcavity of DFB polymer lasers was fabricated by two-beam multi-exposure interference lithography. With the different angles between two gratings, the coupling strength of the cavity modes was controlled. Reducing the coupling strength of cavity modes, the threshold of the polymer lasers decreased. According to the experimental results, the azimuthally polarized output was changed by tuning the cavity coupling. This method provides a facile way to realize low threshold and azimuthally polarized DFB polymer laser.
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