Abstract
Thin solid films of salmon deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) have been fabricated by treatment with a surfactant and used as host for the laser dye sulforhodamine (SRh). The DNA films have an absorption peak at owing to absorption by the nitrogenous aromatic bases. The SRh molecules in the DNA films have absorption and emission peaks at 578 and , respectively. The maximum emission was obtained at SRh in DNA, equivalent to DNA base pairs per SRh molecule. A distributed feedback grating structure was fabricated on a substrate using interference lithography. The grating period of was selected, corresponding to second-order emission at the amplified spontaneous emission wavelength of . Lasing was obtained by pumping with a doubled Nd:YAG laser at . The lasing threshold was , corresponding to or . The emission linewidth decreased from in the amplified spontaneous emission mode to (instrument limited) in the lasing mode. The slope efficiency of the lasing was .
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