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

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 d...

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Published inChemical Society reviews Vol. 49; no. 16; pp. 5885 - 5944
Main Authors Jiang, Yi, Liu, Yuan-Yuan, Liu, Xu, Lin, He, Gao, Kun, Lai, Wen-Yong, Huang, Wei
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published England Royal Society of Chemistry 17.08.2020
Subjects
design
electronics
humans
Lasers
manufacturing
materials
methodology
Optical feedback
Organic semiconductors
Semiconductor lasers
Semiconductors
society
Solid state lasers
synthesis
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Summary: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. This review introduces the design, opportunities, and challenges of organic gain media for organic solid-state lasers, especially for organic semiconductor lasers, providing a clear panorama for this interesting and exciting research field.
Bibliography:Dr Yi Jiang received his BS degree from College of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science of Tianjin University of Science and Technology in 2012. Since 2013, he has been a PhD student in Nanjing University of Posts & Telecommunications under the supervision of Prof. Wen-Yong Lai. In 2017, he joined in Prof. Donal D. C. Bradley's group in Department of Physics at University of Oxford as a visiting PhD student. He then spent two months as a visiting PhD student at Hong Kong Baptist University working on the research of non-linear optics supervised by Prof. Kok Wai Cheah. After got his PhD degree in 2018, he went on to work in Hong Kong Baptist University as a postdoctoral fellow. His current research mainly focuses on organic gain media, organic functional materials, optoelectronic/laser devices, and non-linear optics.
Dr Wen-Yong Lai is a full professor at Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications. He received his PhD from Fudan University in 2007. He then joined the Key Laboratory for Organic Electronics & Information Displays, Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), Nanjing University of Posts & Telecommunications. His research mainly focuses on the design, synthesis, and application of organic & polymer optoelectronic materials for organic/flexible electronics. He is also interested in the exploration of novel materials and processes for printed electronics.
Dr Wei Huang received his PhD from Peking University in 1992. In 2001, he was appointed as a chair professor at Fudan University, where he founded and chaired the Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM). After that he became the vice president of Nanjing University of Posts & Telecommunications, and then president of Nanjing Tech University. Now he is the deputy president of Northwestern Polytechnical University. He was elected as Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2011. His research interest includes organic/plastic materials and devices, nanomaterials and nanotechnology, etc.
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ISSN:0306-0012
1460-4744
1460-4744
DOI:10.1039/d0cs00037j