Organic Lasers and Organic Photonics / F. J. Duarte.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Duarte, F. J., author.

Series:

IOP Series in Coherent Sources, Quantum Fundamentals, and Applications Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dye lasers.

Optical physics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (481 pages)

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Bristol, England : IOP Publishing, [2024]

Summary:

Organic Lasers and Organic Photonics (2nd Edn) provides an updated and extended version of its successful first edition. It offers an authoritative description of the physics and technology of tunable organic lasers in the liquid and solid state. It also describes electrically-pumped coherent OLED sources, organic dyes for optogenetics, polymer-nanoparticle and bio-based gain media, and applications to optics and medicine.

Contents:

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Series preface

Book preface

Acknowledgements

Editor biography

F J Duarte

Contributing author biographies

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Peter Hegemann

Suneel Kateriya

Alfons Penzkofer

Sergei Popov

Kathleen M Vaeth

Elena Vasileva

Chapter Introduction

1.1 Introduction

1.2 Laser linewidth

1.2.1 Laser linewidth in organic dye lasers

1.2.2 Narrow-linewidth landmarks in high-power pulsed organic dye lasers

1.2.3 Narrow-linewidth landmarks in CW organic dye lasers

1.2.4 CW organic dye laser developments for pulse compression

1.3 Solid-state organic lasers

1.3.1 Solid-state organic dye lasers

1.3.2 Further notable developments

1.3.3 Coherent emission from electrically-pumped organic semiconductors

1.4 Organic photonics

1.5 Organic lasers and organic photonics

1.6 Perspective

1.7 Organic Lasers and Organic Photonics (Second Edition)

References

Chapter Organic laser dyes

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Organic laser dye molecules

2.2.1 Water solubility

2.2.2 Criticisms to organic dye as laser gain media

2.3 Organic laser dyes in the liquid-state and the solid-state

2.4 Literature

2.5 Problems

Chapter Energetics of organic laser dyes

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Rate equations for generalized multiple-level systems

3.2.1 Rate equations for single-energy levels

3.2.2 Applications of rate equations for single-energy levels

3.3 Quantum approach to transition cross sections

3.4 Amplified spontaneous emission (ASE)

3.5 Quantum energy

3.6 Problems

Chapter Polymer matrices for lasers

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Physical parameters of PMMA

4.3 Polymer matrices for organic lasers

4.3.1 Excitation parameters for dye-doped polymer laser matrices

4.4 Longevity of polymer matrices for organic lasers.

4.5 Problems

Chapter Cavity and resonator architectures for high-performance organic laser oscillators

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Mirror-mirror cavities

5.3 Mirror-grating cavities

5.3.1 Littrow grating cavities

5.3.2 Grazing-incidence grating cavities

5.3.3 Open cavity versus closed cavity configurations

5.4 Output-coupler polarizer multiple-prism grating oscillators

5.4.1 Hybrid multiple-prism grazing-incidence (HMPGI) grating configurations

5.4.2 Multiple-prism Littrow (MPL) grating configurations

5.5 Linear and ring laser cavities

5.6 Unstable resonators as laser amplifiers

5.7 Laser-pumped amplifier stages

5.8 Distributed feedback configurations

5.9 Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSELs)

5.10 Perspective

5.11 Problems

Chapter Mathematical-physics for tunable narrow-linewidth organic laser oscillators

6.1 Introduction

6.2 The generalized interferometric equations

6.2.1 The uncertainty principle in optics

6.2.2 Beam divergence

6.3 The cavity linewidth equation

6.4 The diffraction equations

6.5 The generalized multiple-prism equations

6.5.1 Return-pass multiple-prism intracavity dispersion

6.5.2 Multiple-return-pass multiple-prism intracavity dispersion

6.5.3 Multiple-return-pass cavity linewidth

6.5.4 Multiple-return-pass propagation matrix

6.5.5 Multiple-prism mathematical series

6.6 The generalized prismatic equations for laser pulse compression

6.6.1 Fundamentals of pulse compression

6.6.2 Grating pair pulse compression

6.7 Distributed feedback

6.8 Longitudinal tuning in laser microcavities

6.9 Laser linewidth of microcavity emission

6.10 Linewidth equivalence

6.11 Problems

Chapter Best performance of organic lasers

7.1 Introduction

7.2 Laser-pumped liquid organic dye lasers.

7.2.1 Tunable narrow-linewidth laser oscillators

7.2.2 Master-oscillator power-amplifiers

7.2.3 CW lasers

7.2.4 Femtosecond pulse lasers

7.3 Flashlamp-pumped organic dye lasers

7.3.1 Tunable narrow-linewidth laser oscillators

7.3.2 Flashlamp-pumped master-oscillator forced-oscillators

7.4 Solid-state tunable organic dye lasers

7.4.1 Narrow-linewidth tunable solid-state laser oscillators

7.4.2 Long-pulse solid-state tunable laser oscillators

7.5 Additional solid-state organic lasers

7.5.1 Microcavity and optofluidic organic lasers

7.5.2 Organic fiber lasers

7.5.3 Solid-state distributed feedback organic lasers

7.5.4 Solid-state waveguide organic lasers

7.5.5 Solid-state microcavity organic lasers

7.5.6 Organic vertical cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSELs)

7.6 Problems

Chapter Tunable organic lasers for directed energy

8.1 Introduction

8.1.1 Atmospheric propagation

8.2 Organic laser oscillators for directed energy

8.3 Organic master-oscillator forced-oscillator (MOFO) for directed energy

8.4 High-energy amplification stages

8.5 Further development for solid-state tunable organic lasers

8.6 Pulse average power versus CW power

8.7 Thermal dissipation

8.8 Problems

Acknowledgments

Chapter Polymer-nanoparticle organic lasers

9.1 Introduction

9.2 Laser dye-doped polymer-nanoparticle gain media

9.3 Organic dye-doped polymer-nanoparticle tunable lasers

9.4 Interferometric interpretation on polymer-nanoparticle matrix homogeneity

9.5 Problems

Chapter Compact and miniaturized organic dye lasers: from glass to bio-based gain media

10.1 Introduction: from liquid to solid gain media

10.2 Tunable solid-state dye lasers

10.2.1 VECSOLs

10.2.2 DFB organic lasers

10.2.3 Sol-gel silica organic lasers.

10.2.4 Multi-prism SSDL and nanoparticle technology

10.3 Fixed-tuned lasers

10.3.1 Fiber based dye lasers

10.3.2 Whispering gallery mode lasers

10.4 Transparent wood as novel laser media

10.4.1 Optically transparent wood material

10.4.2 Transparent wood dye laser

Chapter Electrically-pumped organic semiconductor laser emission

11.1 Introduction

11.2 Organic semiconductors

11.2.1 Energetics of organic semiconductors

11.2.2 High luminescence OLEDs

11.3 Electrical excitation of the tandem organic semiconductor active region

11.4 Integrated interferometric coherent emitter (IICE)

11.5 Energetics of the organic semiconductor IICE

11.6 Spatial coherence of the emission from the organic semiconductor IICE

11.6.1 Interferometrically determined transverse-mode structures

11.7 Spectral coherence of the emission from the organic semiconductor IICE

11.7.1 Emission linewidth from N-slit interferograms

11.8 On the origin of the coherent emission

11.9 Perspective on the literature

11.10 Quantum coherence

11.11 Miniaturization prospects

11.12 Conclusion

11.13 Problems

Chapter Organic photonics

12.1 Introduction

12.2 Elements of organic photonics

12.2.1 Organic dyes

12.2.2 Polymers

12.2.3 Organic-inorganic composites

12.2.4 Organic lasers

12.2.5 Quantum dots

12.3 Organic optical elements

12.3.1 Organic lenses

12.3.2 Organic-inorganic prisms

12.3.3 Organic fibers

12.4 Applications

12.4.1 Communications

12.4.2 Directed energy

12.4.3 Industry

12.4.4 Medicine

12.4.5 Nonlinear optics

12.4.6 Science

12.4.7 Sensors

12.5 Perspective

12.6 Problems

Chapter Organic dyes in optogenetics

13.1 Introduction

13.2 Characterization of organic dyes applied in optogenetics

13.2.1 Retinals.

13.2.2 Flavins (isoalloxazine derivatives)

13.2.3 Folates

13.2.4 p-coumaric acid

13.2.5 Linear tetrapyrroles (phytochrome chromophores)

13.2.6 Corrinoid-based cyclic tetrapyrroles (chromophores of cobalamin-based photoreceptors)

13.2.7 Tryptophan (UVR8 chromophore)

13.2.8 Fluorescent probes

13.2.9 Fluorescent proteins

13.2.10 Nanomaterials

13.3 Action of the organic dyes in photoreceptors

13.3.1 Rodopsins

13.3.2 Flavoproteins

13.3.3 Xanthopsins (photoactive yellow proteins)

13.3.4 Phytochromes

13.3.5 Cobalamin-based photoreceptors CarH and AerR

13.3.6 UVR8 plant photoreceptors

13.3.7 Upconversion nanoparticle mediated optogenetics

13.4 Application of optogenetic tools

13.4.1 Application of optogenetic tools in neuroscience

13.4.2 Application of optogenetic tools in cell biology

13.5 Conclusions

13.6 Recent advances as to organic dyes in optogenetics

13.6.1 Introduction

13.6.2 Characterization of organic dyes applied in optogenetics

13.6.3 Action of organic dyes in photoreceptors

13.6.4 Application of optogenetic tools

13.6.5 Conclusions

List of Abbreviations

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Chapter Tunable organic lasers, light sheet illumination, and organic molecules for biology and medicine

14.1 Introduction

14.2 Organic lasers for medicine

14.2.1 High-performance solid-state organic lasers for medicine

14.2.2 Additional organic lasers for medicine

14.3 Light sheet microscopy illumination

14.3.1 Multiple-prism propagation matrix equations for extremely wide light sheets

14.3.2 Propagation physics of the optics to generate extremely wide light sheets for microscopy

14.4 Organic dye molecules for photodynamic therapy

14.4.1 Additional organic molecules for photodynamic therapy.

14.5 Dual laser system for diagnosis and photodynamic therapy.

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Print version: Duarte, F. J. Organic Lasers and Organic Photonics (Second Edition)

ISBN:

9780750355476

OCLC:

1455116636