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Section 1.6
POLYMER LASERS

1.6.1 Introduction
Polymer lasers encompass many different material compositions, active species (organic
dyes), and forms (bulk, rods, fibers, films). In this section these are separated into pure
polymer lasers, dye-doped polymer lasers (including host-to-dye energy tranfer), and rare-
earth-doped polymer lasers. Liquid polymer lasers are covered in Section 2.3.

Further Reading—Pure Polymer Lasers
Dodabalapur, A., Chanddross, E. A., Berggren, M., and Slusher, R. L. Organic solid-state
lasers: past and future, Science 277, 1787 (1997).

Friend, R. H., Denton, G. J., Halls, J. J. M. et al., Electronic excitations in luminescent
conjugated polymers, Solid State Commun. 102, 249 (1997).

Frolov, S. V., Shkunov, M., Fujii, A., Yoshino, K., and Vardeny, Z. V., Lasing and
stimulated emission in p-conjugated polymers, IEEE J. Quantum Electron. 36, 2
(2000).
Heeger, A. J., Light emission from semiconducting polymers: Light-emitting diodes, light-
emitting electrochemical cells, lasers, and white light for the future, Solid State
Commun. 107, 673 (1998).

Hide, F., Diaz-Garcia, M. A., Schwartz, B. J., Andersson, M. R., Pei, Q., and Heeger, A.
J., Semiconducting polymers: a new class of solid-state laser materials, Science 273,
1833 (1996).

Jenekje, S. A. and Wynne, K. J., Eds., Photonic and Optoelectronic Polymers, American
Chemical Society, Washington, DC (1997).

Lemmer, U., Stimulated emission and lasing in conjugated polymers, Polym. Adv. Technol.
9, 476 (1998).

Further Reading—Dye Doped Polymer Lasers
Bezrodnyi, V. I., Bondar, M. V., Kozak, G. Yu., Przhonskaya, O. V., and Tikhonov, E.
A., Dye-activated polymer media for frequency-tunable lasers (review), Zh. Prikl.
Spektrosk. (USSR) 50, 711 (1989).

Bezrodnyi, V. I., Przhonskaya, O. V., Tikhonov, E. A., Bondar, M. V., and Shpak, M.
T., Polymer active and passive laser elements made of organic dyes, Sov. J. Quantum
Electron. 12, 1602 (1982).

Dodabalapur, A., Chanddross, E. A., Berggren, M., and Slusher, R. L. Organic solid-state
lasers: past and future, Science 277, 1787 (1997).

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