Organic Solid-State Lasers
By: by Sébastien Forget, Sébastien Chénais
Contributors: Chénais, Sébastien; SpringerLink (Online service)
Series: Springer Series in Optical Sciences -- 175
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg; Imprint: Springer
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 169
ISBN-13: 9783642367052
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
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.
Table of contents: title: Fundamentals of laser physics; title: Organic materials for solid-state lasers; title: Organic Lasers resonators; title: Prospects for electrical pumping; title: Organic lasers at the nanoscale; title: Applications of organic solid-state lasers.