Organic Solid-State Lasers

Description:

Organic lasers are broadly tunable coherent sources, potentially compact, convenient and manufactured at low-costs. Appeared in the mid 60’s as solid-state alternatives for liquid dye lasers, they recently gained a new dimension after the demonstration of organic semiconductor lasers in the 90's. More recently, new perspectives appeared at the nanoscale, with organic polariton and surface plasmon lasers. After a brief reminder to laser physics, a first chapter exposes what makes organic solid-state organic lasers specific. The laser architectures used in organic lasers are then reviewed, with a state-of-the-art review of the performances of devices with regard to output power, threshold, lifetime, beam quality etc. A survey of the recent trends in the field is given, highlighting the latest developments with a special focus on the challenges remaining for achieving direct electrical pumping of organic semiconductor lasers. A last chapter covers the applications of organic solid-state lasers.

subjects: Photonics Laser Technology,  Physical organic chemistry,  RF and Optical Engineering Microwaves,  Microwaves,  Optical and Electronic Materials,  Physical and theoretical Chemistry,  Optical materials,  Optics, Optoelectronics, Plasmonics and Optical Devices,  Optics and Electrodynamics,  Physics,  Solid state physics,  Lasers,  Optics