Issue 16, 2020

Organic solid-state lasers: a materials view and future development

Abstract

Lasing applications have spread over various aspects of human life. To meet the developing trends of the laser industry towards being miniature, portable, and highly integrated, new laser technologies are in urgent demand. Organic semiconductors are promising gain medium candidates for novel laser devices, due to their convenient processing techniques, ease of spectral and chemical tuning, low refractive indexes, mechanical flexibilities, and low thresholds, etc. organic solid-state lasers (OSSLs) open up a new horizon of simple, low-cost, time-saving, versatile and environmental-friendly manufacturing technologies for new and desirable laser structures (micro-, asymmetric, flexible, etc.) to unleash the full potential of semiconductor lasers for future electronics. Besides the development of optical feedback structures, the design and synthesis of robust organic gain media is critical as a vigorous aspect of OSSLs. Herein, we provide a comprehensive review of recent advances in organic gain materials, mainly focused on organic semiconductors for OSSLs. The significant breakthroughs toward electrical pumping of OSSLs are emphasized. Opportunities, challenges and future research directions for the design of organic gain media are also discussed.

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Article information

Article type
Review Article
Submitted
27 Mar 2020
First published
16 Jul 2020

Chem. Soc. Rev., 2020,49, 5885-5944

Organic solid-state lasers: a materials view and future development

Y. Jiang, Y. Liu, X. Liu, H. Lin, K. Gao, W. Lai and W. Huang, Chem. Soc. Rev., 2020, 49, 5885 DOI: 10.1039/D0CS00037J

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