SPECTRAL NARROWING OF EMISSION IN DISUBSTITUTED POLYACETYLENE

We studied spontaneous and stimulated optical emission in films of di- substituted trans-polyacetylene (t-PA). We found that di-substitution of t-PA drastically changes the polymer optical emission properties, s o that photo-generation of exciton and photoluminescence (PL) quantum yields become much higher than those measured in unsubstituted and mon o-substituted t-PA. The strong PL is accompanied by high optical gain and emission spectral narrowing at high excitation intensities; tile e mission spectrum changes from a broad PL band of 100 nm at low intensi ties to a narrow stimulated emission band of similar to 8 nm at high i ntensities. These properties show that di-substituted t-PA films can b e good candidates for laser medium in the green and blue spectral rang es.