Organic photonics

Organic photonics is a subfield of photonics (the technical application of optics) in which light is manipulated via organic materials.

Molecular structure of the Rhodamine 6G dye which is often used to dope a polymer such as PMMA to create a solid-state organic gain medium.

PMMA repeating unit.

Fields within organic photonics include the liquid organic dye laser and organic solid-state dye lasers. Materials used in solid-state dye lasers include:

• laser dye-doped PMMA^[1]
• laser dye-doped ormosil^[2]
• laser dye-doped polymer-nanoparticle matrices^[3]
• laser dye-doped bio-based gain media^[4]

Organic-inorganic nanoparticle gain media are nanocomposites developed for solid-state dye lasers^[3] and can also be used in biosensors,^[5] bioanalytics,^[5] and nonlinear organic photonics applications.^[6]

An additional class of organic materials used in the generation of laser light include organic semiconductors.^[7][8] Conjugated polymers are widely used as optically pumped organic semiconductors.^[7][8]

See also

• Conjugated polymers
• Nonlinear optics
• Organic laser
• Organic semiconductor
• Polymer
• Nanoparticle
• Photonics