Organic Solid-State Lasers

✍ Scribed by Sébastien Forget, Sébastien Chénais (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 179
• Series: Springer Series in Optical Sciences 175
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Laser Basics....Pages 1-12
Fundamentals of Organic Lasers....Pages 13-73
Organic Materials for Solid-State Lasers....Pages 75-106
Organic Lasers Resonators....Pages 107-130
Novel Concepts for Organic Lasers....Pages 131-149
Towards Applications of Organic Solid-State Lasers....Pages 151-166
Back Matter....Pages 167-169

✦ Subjects

Laser Technology, Photonics;Microwaves, RF and Optical Engineering;Optical and Electronic Materials;Physical Chemistry;Optics, Optoelectronics, Plasmonics and Optical Devices;Optics and Electrodynamics