Organic photonics
Organic photonics includes the generation, emission, transmission, modulation, signal processing, switching, amplification, and detection/sensing of light, using organic optical materials.
Fields within organic photonics include the liquid organic dye laser and solid-state organic dye lasers. Materials used in solid-state dye lasers include:
Organic-inorganic nanoparticle gain media are nanocomposites developed for solid-state dye lasers[3] and can also be utilized in biosensors,[4] bio analytics,[4] and nonlinear organic photonics applications.[5]
An additional class of organic materials used in the generation of laser light include organic semiconductors.[6][7] Conjugated polymers are widely used as optically-pumped organic semiconductors.[6][7]
See also
- Conjugated polymers
- Nonlinear optics
- Organic laser
- Organic semiconductor
- Polymer
- Nanoparticle
- Photonics
References
- ↑ B. H. Soffer and B. B. McFarland, Continuously tunable narrow-band organic dye lasers, Appl. Phys. Lett. 10, 266-267 (1967).
- ↑ B. S. Dunn, J. D. Mackenzie, J. I. Zink, and O. M. Stafsudd, Solid-state tunable lasers based on dye-doped sol-gel materials, Proc. SPIE 1328, 174-182 (1990).
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 F. J. Duarte and R. O. James, Tunable solid-state lasers incorporating dye-doped polymer-nanoparticle gain media, Opt. Lett. 28, 2088-2090 (2003).
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 P. Escribano et al., Photonic and nanobiophotonic properties of luminescent lanthanide-doped hybrid organic-inorganic materials, J. Mater. Chem. 18, 23-40 (2008).
- ↑ K. Dolgaleva and R. W. Boyd, Local field effects in nanostructured photonic materials, Adv. Opt. Photonics 4, 1-77 (2012).
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 I. D. W. Samuel and G. A. Turnbull, Organic semiconductor lasers, Chem. Rev. 107, 1272-1295 (2007).
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 C. Karnutsch, Low Threshold Organic Thin Film Laser Devices (Cuvillier, Göttingen, 2007).
