An organic laser is a
laser which uses an
organic (carbon based) material as the gain medium. The first organic laser was the liquid
dye laser.[1][2] These lasers use
laser dye solutions as their gain media.
Organic lasers are inherently tunable and when configured as optimized
multiple-prism grating laser oscillators can yield efficient single-transverse mode, and single-longitudinal-mode, emission with
laser linewidths as narrow as 350 MHz (approximately 0.0004 nm at a wavelength of 590 nm), in the high-power pulsed regime.[3]
Solid-state dye lasers
Organic solid-state narrow-linewidth tunable dye laser oscillator using a dye-doped polymer as gain medium[4]
DDO and DDPN gain media are subsets of a larger class of organic-inorganic hybrid materials used as laser matrices.[8][9]
Organic semiconductor laser
Other types of solid-state organic lasers include the organic semiconductor lasers that use
conjugated polymers as gain media.[10][11][12][13] These semiconductor materials can also be configured as "neat films."[14]
Coherent emission, characterized via high-visibility double-slit interferograms (V ~ 0.9) and near diffraction-limited beam divergence, has been reported from electrically pumped coumarin dye-doped tandem
OLED devices.[15]
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