Organic Lasers : Fundamentals, Developments, and Applications

Content: Cover
 Half Title
 Title
 Copyright
 Dedication
 Contents
 Preface
 Chapter 1 Basic Concepts of Stimulated Emission and Lasing in Organic Materials
 1.1 Introduction
 1.2 Electronic Structure
 1.2.1 Energetic Levels
 1.2.2 Primary Excitations
 1.2.3 Electronic Transitions and Relaxation Processes
 1.3 Stimulated Emission and Line Narrowing
 1.4 Optical Gain Measurement: Experimental Setup
 1.5 A More Detailed Analysis of the VSL Method
 1.6 Two Key Parameters: The Threshold Length and the Saturation Length
 1.7 Effects ofWaveguiding in the VSL Method
 1.8 Conclusion Chapter 2 Physics Behind Amplified Spontaneous Emission in Organic Active Waveguides2.1 Introduction
 2.2 Waveguide Operation
 2.2.1 Ray Optics
 2.2.2 Wave Optics
 2.3 Understanding the Intrinsic Gain Properties of an Active Material by ASE Measurements
 2.4 Gain Cross Section and ASE Threshold: The Case of Poly(9,9-dioctylfluorene
 2.5 ASE Dependence on theWaveguide Thickness
 2.5.1 ASE Thickness Dependence in Diluted Polystyrene Matrix
 2.5.2 ASE Thickness Dependence in Poly(9,9-dioctylfluorene) Neat Films
 2.6 ASE Dependence on the Molecule Alignment 2.7 ASE Dependence on the Film Morphology2.7.1 Minimization of the Amplified Spontaneous Emission Threshold by Optimization of the Micromorphology
 2.7.2 Unexpected Composition Dependence of the ASE Properties of Polymer:Polymer Blends-The Case of PF8:F8BT
 Chapter 3 State-of-the-Art Active Materials for Organic Lasers
 3.1 Introduction
 3.2 Dyes
 3.2.1 Synthetic Molecules
 3.2.1.1 BODIPYs
 3.2.1.2 Perylenediimides
 3.2.1.3 Xhanthenes
 3.2.1.4 Miscellanea
 3.2.2 Biomolecules
 3.3 Molecular Single Crystals
 3.3.1 Oligomeric Compounds
 3.3.2 Non-oligomeric Molecules 3.3.2.1 Excited-state intramolecular proton transfer3.4 Molecular Glasses
 3.4.1 Linear, Branched, and Spiro Compounds
 3.4.2 Star-Shaped Oligomers
 3.5 Conjugated Polymers
 3.5.1 Homopolymers
 3.5.2 Copolymers
 3.6 Hybrid Compounds
 3.7 Final Remarks
 Chapter 4 Basic Physics and Recent Developments of Organic Random Lasers
 4.1 Introduction
 4.2 Random Laser
 4.2.1 Random-Laser Materials
 4.2.2 Applications
 4.3 Organic Semiconductor Materials in Random Lasers
 4.4 Patterning Organic Compounds for Random Lasing 4.5 Thiophene-Based Compounds: Engineered Random Lasers and Replica Symmetry Breaking4.5.1 Lithographed Random Lasers
 4.5.2 Intensity Fluctuations in Random Lasers
 4.6 Biocompatible and Biologically Inspired Random Lasers
 Chapter 5 Cavity-Matter Interaction inWeak- and Strong-Coupling Regime: From White OLEDs to Organic Polariton Lasers
 5.1 Light-Matter Coupling: Classical and Quantum Theory
 5.1.1 A Classical Toy Model
 5.1.2 Optical Resonators: The Case of Optical Microcavity
 5.1.3 Cavity-Exciton Interaction in Weak-Coupling Regime
 5.1.4 Quantum Description of Strong Coupling