We report on a monolithic polymeric microcavity laser with all dielectric mirrors realized by low-temperature electron-beam evaporation. The vertical heterostructure was realized by 9.5 pairs evaporated onto an active conjugated polymer, that was previously spincast onto the bottom distributed Bragg reflector (DBR). The cavity supports single-mode lasing at , with a linewidth of , and a lasing threshold of . We also report on the emission properties of the polymer we used, investigated by a pump-probe technique. These results show that low-temperature electron-beam evaporation is a powerful and straightforward fabrication technique for molecular-based fully integrable microcavity resonators.
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