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 …

Whispering gallery microcavity lasers

L He, ŞK Özdemir, L Yang - Laser & Photonics Reviews, 2013‏ - Wiley Online Library
Whispering gallery mode (WGM) optical microresonators have attracted intense interests in
the past decades. The combination of high quality factors (Q) and small mode volumes of …

Full-color laser displays based on organic printed microlaser arrays

J Zhao, Y Yan, Z Gao, Y Du, H Dong, J Yao… - Nature …, 2019‏ - nature.com
Laser displays, which exploit characteristic advantages of lasers, represent a promising next-
generation display technology based on the ultimate visual experience they provide …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Two-photon polymerization: Functionalized microstructures, micro-resonators, and bio-scaffolds

AJG Otuka, NB Tomazio, KT Paula, CR Mendonça - Polymers, 2021‏ - mdpi.com
The direct laser writing technique based on two-photon polymerization (TPP) has evolved
considerably over the past two decades. Its remarkable characteristics, such as 3D …

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 …

Quasi-BIC laser enabled by high-contrast grating resonator for gas detection

H Zhang, T Wang, J Tian, J Sun, S Li, I De Leon… - …, 2022‏ - degruyter.com
In this work, we propose and numerically investigate a two-dimensional microlaser based on
the concept of bound states in the continuum (BIC). The device consists of a thin gain layer …

Ultrasensitive optofluidic enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay by on-chip integrated polymer whispering-gallery-mode microlaser sensors

X Ouyang, T Liu, Y Zhang, J He, Z He, AP Zhang… - Lab on a Chip, 2020‏ - pubs.rsc.org
Optical whispering-gallery-mode (WGM) microcavities offer great promise in ultrasensitive
biosensors because of their unique ability to enable resonant recirculation of light to achieve …

All-polymer photonic sensing platform based on whispering-gallery mode microgoblet lasers

T Wienhold, S Kraemmer, SF Wondimu, T Siegle… - Lab on a Chip, 2015‏ - pubs.rsc.org
We present an all-polymer photonic sensing platform based on whispering-gallery mode
microgoblet lasers integrated into a microfluidic chip. The chip is entirely made from …

Direct laser writing for active and passive high-Q polymer microdisks on silicon

T Grossmann, S Schleede, M Hauser, T Beck… - Optics express, 2011‏ - opg.optica.org
We report the fabrication of high-Q polymeric microdisks on silicon via direct laser writing
utilizing two-photon absorption induced polymerization. The quality factors of the passive …