Organic Solid-State Lasers

This book recaps laser physics, defines organic solid-state lasers, reviews performance and surveys recent trends and current challenges such as direct electrical pumping of organic semiconductor lasers. A final chapter explores practical applications.

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.

Gives a state-of-the-art review of organic lasers Presents the basic principles of organic lasers Gives advice to structure the laser architecture Discusses in detail the performances of laser devices with regard to output power, threshold, lifetime and beam quality Presents direct electrical pumping of organic semiconductor lasers Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Inhalt
Fundamentals of laser physics.- Organic materials for solid-state lasers.- Organic Lasers resonators.- Prospects for electrical pumping.- Organic lasers at the nanoscale.- Applications of organic solid-state lasers.