Preface

Acknowledgements

Editor biography

Contributing author biographies

1 Introduction

2 Organic laser dyes

3 Energetics of organic laser dyes

4 Polymer matrices for lasers

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

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

7 Best performance of organic lasers

8 Tunable organic lasers for directed energy

9 Polymer-nanoparticle organic lasers

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

11 Electrically-pumped organic semiconductor laser emission

12 Organic photonics

13 Organic dyes in optogenetics

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

15 Organic lasers for N-channel quantum entanglement

16 Intrinsic quantum coherence in electrically-pumped organic interferometric emitters: Diracian emission

Index

Organic Lasers and Organic Photonics (Second Edition), presents a unique integrated and updated perspective on the field of organic sources of coherent radiation from high-average power (multi kW), and high-pulse energy (~1 kJ), to miniaturized organic lasers and coherent sources. Although the emphasis is on tunable narrow-linewidth lasers, many other sources, with a variety of organic gain media, are considered. The presentation also focuses on electrically-pumped organic semiconductor coherent sources, their physics and technology. Next, a pragmatic review of organic photonics, including numerous exciting applications, leads to an extensive, authoritative, and notable chapter on organic dyes for optogenetics which provides an up-to-date description of this exciting field. This is followed by a chapter on organic lasers and organic molecules for medicine which also describes light sheet illumination techniques yielding extremely elongated laser beams (up to 3000:1). This second edition concludes with two related quantum optics chapters. First, an updated chapter on quantum organic lasers as sources of ensembles of indistinguishable photons, with orthogonal polarizations, for quantum entangle-ment communications. This is followed by a brief chapter on intrinsic quantum coherent emission that is relevant to the preceding chapter and also to the chapter on coherent emission from electrically excited organic semiconductors. In all, thirteen (13) of the sixteen (16) chapter include relevant and original problems.

FJ Duarte is an award winning laser and quantum physicist who is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Physics and a Fellow of the Optical Society of America (now Optica). He is editor- author of 15 books and solo author of 6 titles.

Peter Hegemann is Hertie-Professor for Neuroscience at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. He has received several professional awards.

Suneel Kateriya is a professor of Biotechnology at the School of Biotechnology (SBT), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, India.

Alfons Penzkofer is a retired professor and physicist conducting photo-biological spectroscopy research at the University of Regensburg. He is a Fellow of Optica.

Sergei Popov is a physics professor at KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan), Sweden. He is a Fellow of Optica.

Kathleen M Vaeth is the Senior Engineering R&D Manager for New and Advanced Sensor Products at Qualitrol Corporation (Rochester, New York). She is a Fellow of Optica.

Elena Vasileva is a Global Product Manager at Hübner Photonics (Sweden). She conducted her doctoral research at Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan, Sweden.