Organic laser dyes

Sakai K, Tsuzuki T, Itoh Y et al (2005) Using proton-transfer laser dyes for organic laser diodes. Appl Phys Lett 86 081103... 

Organic dyes in lasers offer certain advantages over inorganic materials ... 

Production of fluorescent LCs by dissolving fluorescent dyes in host materials has been an active area of smdy for many years. This is because it is the simplest method for producing fluorescent LCs and also because the absorption and emission profiles of the dyes can be altered by application of an electric field. Examples of potential applications include polarised organic lasers, but the main problem with the use of fluorescent dyes in guest-host systems is the limited solubility of the... 

In the years since 1964, when the first passive Q-switching with organic dyes was accomplished, the use of organic dyes in laser technology has become increasingly important. Some of the most important developments in the laser field would not have been possible without organic dyes, and one can foresee even further possibilities for the use of dyes in laser technology which could be realized in the near future. 

This short review will discuss all of the different applications of organic dyes in the laser field which have been reported up to the present, emphasizing a unified treatment of basic principles and leaving a discussion of the details to special reviews and monographs of the different applications. Within the limited space available it is not possible to give a complete list of references. Therefore, only a selection of the most important literature references will be presented here to enable the interested reader to acquire the complete literature of this field from the secondary references cited in these papers. Two review papers on organic dyes in laser technology appeared in 1970 1>2>. 

Dye lasers are presently the most important application of organic dyes in laser technology, making use of the fluorescence of dyes. 

Organic Dyes in Laser Technology Fritz Peter Schafer... 

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