Organic photonics

Organic photonics is a subfield of photonics (the technical application of optics) in which light is manipulated via organic materials.

Fields within organic photonics include the liquid organic dye laser and organic solid-state dye lasers. Materials used in solid-state dye lasers include:

laser dye-doped PMMA^[1]
laser dye-doped ormosil^[2]
laser dye-doped polymer-nanoparticle matrices^[3]
laser dye-doped bio-based gain media^[4]

Organic-inorganic nanoparticle gain media are nanocomposites developed for solid-state dye lasers^[3] and can also be used in biosensors,^[5] bioanalytics,^[5] and nonlinear organic photonics applications.^[6]

An additional class of organic materials used in the generation of laser light include organic semiconductors.^[7]^[8] Conjugated polymers are widely used as optically pumped organic semiconductors.^[7]^[8]

References

↑ Soffer, B. H.; McFarland, B. B. (1967-05-15). "Continuously tunable narrow-band organic dye lasers". Applied Physics Letters. 10 (10). AIP Publishing: 266–267. Bibcode:1967ApPhL..10..266S. doi:10.1063/1.1754804. ISSN 0003-6951.
↑ Dunn, Bruce S.; Mackenzie, John D.; Zink, Jeffrey I.; Stafsudd, Oscar M. (1990-11-01). "Solid-state tunable lasers based on dye-doped sol-gel materials". In Mackenzie, John D.; Ulrich, Donald R. (eds.). Sol-Gel Optics. Vol. 1328. SPIE. pp. 174–182. doi:10.1117/12.22557. {{cite book}}: |journal= ignored (help)
1 2 Duarte, F. J.; James, R. O. (2003-11-01). "Tunable solid-state lasers incorporating dye-doped, polymer– nanoparticle gain media". Optics Letters. 28 (21). The Optical Society: 2088–2090. Bibcode:2003OptL...28.2088D. doi:10.1364/ol.28.002088. ISSN 0146-9592. PMID 14587824.
↑ Popov S, Vasileva E (2018). "Compact and miniaturized organic dye lasers: from glass to bio-based gain media". In Duarte FJ (ed.). Organic Lasers and Organic Photonics. London: Institute of Physics. pp. 10-1 to 10-27. ISBN 978-0-7503-1570-8.
1 2 Escribano, Purificación; Julián-López, Beatriz; Planelles-Aragó, José; Cordoncillo, Eloisa; Viana, Bruno; Sanchez, Clément (2008). "Photonic and nanobiophotonic properties of luminescent lanthanide-doped hybrid organic–inorganic materials". J. Mater. Chem. 18 (1). Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC): 23–40. doi:10.1039/b710800a. hdl:10234/10093. ISSN 0959-9428.
↑ Dolgaleva, Ksenia; Boyd, Robert W. (2012-03-13). "Local-field effects in nanostructured photonic materials". Advances in Optics and Photonics. 4 (1). The Optical Society: 1–77. Bibcode:2012AdOP....4....1D. doi:10.1364/aop.4.000001. ISSN 1943-8206.
1 2 Samuel, I. D. W.; Turnbull, G. A. (2007). "Organic Semiconductor Lasers". Chemical Reviews. 107 (4). American Chemical Society (ACS): 1272–1295. doi:10.1021/cr050152i. ISSN 0009-2665. PMID 17385928.
1 2 C. Karnutsch, Low Threshold Organic Thin Film Laser Devices (Cuvillier, Göttingen, 2007).

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