Organic polymer composite random laser operating underwater

Chen, Yujie; Zhang, Yanfeng; Laurand, N.; Kanibolotsky, A. L.; Gu, Erdan; Skabara, Peter J.; Dawson, Martin D.

doi:10.1364/ol.37.005160

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“…305 A further area where organic lasers are likely to find applications and where proof-of-principle demonstrations have already been reported is biosensing (i.e., the detection of small changes to the biochemical environment in the vicinity of the laser). Materials and encapsulants were optimized for operation of organic lasers under water, 306 and it was proposed to use organic lasers as excitation sources for the detection of biomolecules on metallic nanopillar arrays via surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS). 307 WGM-based organic lasers were used to detect small quantities of biomolecules.…”

Section: Applications Of Organic Lasersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Organic Lasers: Recent Developments on Materials, Device Geometries, and Fabrication Techniques

2016

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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 ease of spectral and chemical tuning. On a technological level, mechanical flexibility and compatibility with simple processing techniques such as printing, roll-to-roll, self-assembly, and soft-lithography are most relevant. Here, the authors provide a comprehensive review of the developments in the field over the past decade, discussing recent advances in organic gain materials, which are today often based on solid-state organic semiconductors, as well as optical feedback structures, and device fabrication. Recent efforts toward continuous wave operation and electrical pumping of solid-state organic lasers are reviewed, and new device concepts and emerging applications are summarized.

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Section: Applications Of Organic Lasersmentioning

confidence: 99%