Evaluating the lasing potential of light-emitting materials has become an important aspect of thin-film laser research. Measurement of Amplified Spontaneous Emission (ASE) thresholds is a widespread technique for this matter, but the question of whether measuring this threshold in energy or power density becomes relevant whenever pump duration and excited state lifetime share the same order of magnitude. By comparing thresholds of a DCM-based organic waveguide with 4 different pump durations, we establish that power density is the most appropriate unit even for pulses shorter than the excited state lifetime by a factor of 5.
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