Organic Solid-State Lasers

ISBN-13: 9783642367045 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 169 str.

Sebastien Forget; Sebastien Chenais

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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.

Blurb

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.