Organic semiconductor lasers

Patent Pending Organic lasers use an organic material as the gain medium. The first organic laser was the liquid dye laser.[1][2] These lasers use laser dye solutions as their gain media. Solid-state dye lasers are organic tunable lasers that use laser dye-doped polymers (DDP),[3] dye-doped ormosil (DDO),[4] and dye-doped polymer-nanoparticle (DDPN)[5] gain media. DDO and DDPN gain media are subsets of a larger class of organic-inorganic hybrid materials used as laser matrices.[6][7] Other types of solid-state organic lasers include the organic semiconductor lasers that use conjugated polymers as gain media.[8][9] These semiconductor materials can also be configured as "neat films."