Elastically Tunable Self‐Organized Organic Lasers

Abstract

Organic lasers that rely on sinusoidal, tunable distributed-feedback gratings formed by self-organization of the surface of elastomeric PDMS are demonstrated. The lasing wavelength can be tuned by stretching. The simple fabrication of the lasers on potentially large areas enables entirely new applications such as a strain-sensing optical skin for structural health monitoring. Detailed facts of importance to specialist readers are published as ”Supporting Information”. Such documents are peer-reviewed, but not copy-edited or typeset. They are made available as submitted by the authors. Please note: The publisher is not responsible for the content or functionality of any supporting information supplied by the authors. Any queries (other than missing content) should be directed to the corresponding author for the article.