organic photonics

{{short description|Technical application of optics using organic materials}}

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

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{{cite journal | last1=Soffer | first1=B. H. | last2=McFarland | first2=B. B. | title=Continuously tunable narrow-band organic dye lasers | journal=Applied Physics Letters | publisher=AIP Publishing | volume=10 | issue=10 | date=1967-05-15 | issn=0003-6951 | doi=10.1063/1.1754804 | pages=266–267}}
• laser dye-doped ormosil{{cite conference | last1=Dunn | first1=Bruce S. | last2=Mackenzie | first2=John D. | last3=Zink | first3=Jeffrey I. | last4=Stafsudd | first4=Oscar M. | editor-last=Mackenzie | editor-first=John D. | editor2-last=Ulrich | editor2-first=Donald R. | title=Solid-state tunable lasers based on dye-doped sol-gel materials |journal=Proceedings of SPIE| publisher=SPIE | date=1990-11-01 | doi=10.1117/12.22557 |volume=1328|pages=174–182}}
• laser dye-doped polymer-nanoparticle matrices{{cite journal | last1=Duarte | first1=F. J. |author-link=F. J. Duarte| last2=James | first2=R. O. | title=Tunable solid-state lasers incorporating dye-doped, polymer– nanoparticle gain media | journal=Optics Letters | publisher=The Optical Society | volume=28 | issue=21 | date=2003-11-01 | issn=0146-9592 | doi=10.1364/ol.28.002088 | pages=2088–2090| pmid=14587824 }}
• laser dye-doped bio-based gain media{{cite book |editor1= Duarte FJ |title=Organic Lasers and Organic Photonics |publisher= Institute of Physics |location=London |year=2018 |pages= 10-1 to 10-27 | chapter = Compact and miniaturized organic dye lasers: from glass to bio-based gain media |isbn=978-0-7503-1570-8 | author = Popov S, Vasileva E }}

Organic-inorganic nanoparticle gain media are nanocomposites developed for solid-state dye lasers and can also be used in biosensors,{{cite journal | last1=Escribano | first1=Purificación | last2=Julián-López | first2=Beatriz | last3=Planelles-Aragó | first3=José | last4=Cordoncillo | first4=Eloisa | last5=Viana | first5=Bruno | last6=Sanchez | first6=Clément | title=Photonic and nanobiophotonic properties of luminescent lanthanide-doped hybrid organic–inorganic materials | journal=J. Mater. Chem. | publisher=Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | volume=18 | issue=1 | year=2008 | issn=0959-9428 | doi=10.1039/b710800a | pages=23–40| hdl=10234/10093 | hdl-access=free }} bioanalytics, and nonlinear organic photonics applications.{{cite journal | last1=Dolgaleva | first1=Ksenia | last2=Boyd | first2=Robert W. |author-link2=Robert W. Boyd| title=Local-field effects in nanostructured photonic materials | journal=Advances in Optics and Photonics | publisher=The Optical Society | volume=4 | issue=1 | date=2012-03-13 | issn=1943-8206 | doi=10.1364/aop.4.000001 | pages=1–77}}

An additional class of organic materials used in the generation of laser light include organic semiconductors.{{cite journal | last1=Samuel | first1=I. D. W. | last2=Turnbull | first2=G. A. | title=Organic Semiconductor Lasers | journal=Chemical Reviews | publisher=American Chemical Society (ACS) | volume=107 | issue=4 | year=2007 | issn=0009-2665 | doi=10.1021/cr050152i | pages=1272–1295| pmid=17385928 }}C. Karnutsch, Low Threshold Organic Thin Film Laser Devices (Cuvillier, Göttingen, 2007). Conjugated polymers are widely used as optically pumped organic semiconductors.