Article | REF: E6430 V3

Polymeric materials for optics - Properties and applications

Authors: Kokou D. DORKENOO, Alain FORT

Publication date: October 10, 2012

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4. Organic lasers

When Theodore Maiman built the first laser in 1960, producing stimulated emission at 694.3 nm by exciting a ruby (an aluminum oxide crystal Al 2 O 3 containing chromium Cr 3+ impurities), no one could have imagined the tremendous societal impact this discovery would have. In just a few decades, we've gone from an "invention in search of applications" to an ever-expanding market worth almost $8 billion. While this market is still largely dominated by inorganic lasers, important niches for the development of organic lasers are emerging, particularly in...

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