Organic lasers: recent developments on materials, device geometries, and fabrication techniques

AJC Kuehne, MC Gather - Chemical Reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
Organic dyes have been used as gain medium for lasers since the 1960s, long before the
advent of today's organic electronic devices. Organic gain materials are highly attractive for …

Single nanoparticle detection using optical microcavities

Y Zhi, XC Yu, Q Gong, L Yang, YF **ao - Advanced Materials, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Detection of nanoscale objects is highly desirable in various fields such as early‐stage
disease diagnosis, environmental monitoring and homeland security. Optical microcavity …

Advances and prospects for whispering gallery mode microcavities

S Yang, Y Wang, H Sun - Advanced Optical Materials, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Microlasers have experienced tremendous development in the past decade and become an
essential part in laser evolution, as miniature lasers provide strong optical confinement and …

Fiber optofluidic microlasers: structures, characteristics, and applications

X Yang, C Gong, C Zhang, Y Wang… - Laser & Photonics …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Herein, recent progress in fiber optofluidic lasers and their applications in biochemical
detection are reviewed. The unique properties of optical fibers are introduced for the …

Whispering‐gallery microcavities with unidirectional laser emission

XF Jiang, CL Zou, L Wang, Q Gong… - Laser & Photonics …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Optical whispering‐gallery mode (WGM) microcavities featuring ultrahigh Q factors and
small mode volumes enhance significantly the interaction between light and matter …

Fluorescent and lasing whispering gallery mode microresonators for sensing applications

T Reynolds, N Riesen, A Meldrum… - Laser & Photonics …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Whispering gallery modes (WGMs) have been exploited for a broad range of sensing
applications. However, the vast majority of WGM sensors consist of passive resonators …

Ultralow‐threshold and high‐quality whispering‐gallery‐mode lasing from colloidal core/hybrid‐shell quantum wells

R Duan, Z Zhang, L **ao, X Zhao, YT Thung… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The realization of efficient on‐chip microlasers with scalable fabrication, ultralow threshold,
and stable single‐frequency operation is always desired for a wide range of miniaturized …

Low‐threshold wavelength‐switchable organic nanowire lasers based on excited‐state intramolecular proton transfer

W Zhang, Y Yan, J Gu, J Yao, YS Zhao - Angewandte Chemie, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Coherent light signals generated at the nanoscale are crucial to the realization of photonic
integrated circuits. Self‐assembled nanowires from organic dyes can provide both a gain …

Active polymer nanofibers for photonics, electronics, energy generation and micromechanics

L Persano, A Camposeo, D Pisignano - Progress in polymer science, 2015 - Elsevier
Active polymer nanofibers for opto-and nano-electronics benefit from low cost and versatile
fabrication processes and exhibit an unequaled flexibility in terms of chemical composition …

Single whispering-gallery mode lasing in polymer bottle microresonators via spatial pump engineering

F Gu, F **e, X Lin, S Linghu, W Fang, H Zeng… - Light: Science & …, 2017 - nature.com
Single-mode lasing in whispering-gallery mode (WGM) microresonators is challenging to
achieve. In bottle microresonators, the highly non-degenerated WGMs are spatially well …