Organic Lasers: Recent Developments on Materials, Device Geometries, and Fabrication Techniques
RWTH Aachen University · DWI – Leibniz Institute for Interactive Materials · +1 more institution
Abstract
Organic dyes have been used as gain medium for lasers since the 1960s, long before the advent of today's organic electronic devices. Organic gain materials are highly attractive for lasing due to their chemical tunability and large stimulated emission cross section. While the traditional dye laser has been largely replaced by solid-state lasers, a number of new and miniaturized organic lasers have emerged that hold great potential for lab-on-chip applications, biointegration, low-cost sensing and related areas, which benefit from the unique properties of organic gain materials. On the fundamental level, these include high exciton binding energy, low refractive index (compared to inorganic semiconductors), and…
Citation impact
- FWCI
- 41.10
- Percentile
- 100%
- References
- 313
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2Topics & keywords
- Lasing threshold
- Laser
- Nanotechnology
- Fabrication
- Organic semiconductor
- Lithography
- Flexibility (engineering)
- Optoelectronics