A fully solution-processed organic microcavity laser in the strong light-matter coupling regime

TL;DR

This paper demonstrates the first fully solution-processed organic microcavity laser operating in the strong light-matter coupling regime, enabling scalable and low-cost polaritonic devices with novel lasing dynamics.

Contribution

It introduces a new fabrication method for organic microcavities using solution processing, achieving strong coupling and polariton lasing in organic materials.

Findings

Reversible redistribution of polariton condensate at high excitation densities

Observation of distinct polariton lasing behavior in organic microcavities

Successful demonstration of scalable, solution-processed organic laser microcavities

Abstract

Solid-state semiconductor lasers underpin technologies from telecommunications and data storage to sensing, medical diagnostics, and emerging quantum communication. Polaritons-hybrid exciton-photon states have further extended this reach, enabling room-temperature quantum effects such as low-threshold lasing and single-photon nonlinearities. Organic semiconductors are ideal for polaritonics due to their large exciton binding energy, strong optical nonlinearities, and straightforward processing, making them attractive for both classical and quantum photonics. While solution-processed organic films have been widely explored, their optical cavities have almost always been fabricated using vacuum deposition, limiting the realization of truly scalable and low-cost devices. Here, we report the first organic laser microcavities fabricated entirely by solution processing, which operate in the strong coupling regimeThe resulting platform can be driven reliably to high excitation densities, where we observe a reversible, interaction-driven redistribution of the polariton condensate, revealing a distinct polariton lasing behaviour in organic microcavities. Together, the fabrication approach and the observed lasing dynamics establish a route toward scalable polaritonic and quantum photonic technologies and provide new opportunities for studying nonlinear polariton physics in organic systems.