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Organic Single Crystal Lasers: A Materials View
Author(s) -
Gierschner Johannes,
Varghese Shinto,
Park Soo Young
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
advanced optical materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.89
H-Index - 91
ISSN - 2195-1071
DOI - 10.1002/adom.201500531
Subject(s) - lasing threshold , materials science , laser , optoelectronics , polarization (electrochemistry) , optical materials , solid state , material design , nanotechnology , wavelength , engineering physics , optics , chemistry , physics , composite material , engineering
Materials design has become a vigorous aspect for organic solid‐state lasing, which often lacks a fundamental understanding of structure–property relationships. The development of such an understanding is undertaken in this progress report, which systematically explores the now‐available libraries of organic single crystals exhibiting light amplification under optical pumping. By doing so, intra‐ and intermolecular contributions are disentangled for the non‐/occurrence, type, threshold, wavelength, and polarization of the light amplification processes, opening the path to targeted materials design.