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dc.contributor.advisorTurnbull, Graham A.
dc.contributor.advisorSamuel, Ifor D. W.
dc.contributor.authorTsiminis, Georgios
dc.coverage.spatial184en_US
dc.date.accessioned2010-06-22T09:08:30Z
dc.date.available2010-06-22T09:08:30Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.identifieruk.bl.ethos.552390
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/927
dc.description.abstractThis thesis describes a number of studies on organic semiconductors focused around using them as gain media for lasers. The photophysical properties of organic semiconductors are studied using a wide range of experimental techniques, allowing the evaluation of new materials and novel excitation schemes for use in organic semiconductor lasers. Polyfluorene is a well-established conjugated polymer laser gain medium and in this thesis its excellent lasing properties are combined with its two photon absorption properties to demonstrate a tunable two-photon pumped solid-state laser based on a commercially available organic semiconductor. A family of bisfluorene dendrimers was studied using a number of photophysical techniques to evaluate their potential as laser materials. Distributed feedback lasers based on one of the dendrimers are demonstrated with lasing thresholds comparable to polyfluorene. The same materials were found to have enhanced two-photon absorption properties in comparison to polyfluorene, leading to the fabrication of tunable two-photon pumped dendrimer lasers. A member of a novel family of star-shaped oligofluorene truxenes was evaluated as a laser gain material and the distributed feedback lasers made from them show some of the lowest lasing thresholds reported for organic semiconductors, partly as a consequence of exceptionally low waveguide losses in comparison to other single-material thin films. Finally, an organic laser dye is blended with a conjugated polymer, where the dye molecules harvest the excitation light of a GaN laser diode and transfer its energy to the polymer molecules. This is the first time such a scheme is used in an organic laser and in combination with a novel surface-emitting distributed Bragg reflector resonator allows the demonstration of a diode-pumped organic laser, a significant step towards simplifying organic lasers.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of St Andrews
dc.subjectLaseren_US
dc.subjectOrganic semiconductoren_US
dc.subjectNonlinear opticsen_US
dc.subjectPolymeren_US
dc.subjectPhotonicsen_US
dc.subjectDeviceen_US
dc.subjectOrganicen_US
dc.subjectMaterialsen_US
dc.subject.lccTA1700.T8
dc.subject.lcshSemiconductor lasers--Materialsen_US
dc.subject.lcshOrganic semiconductorsen_US
dc.subject.lcshOptical pumpingen_US
dc.subject.lcshTunable lasersen_US
dc.titleOne- and two-photon pumped organic semiconductor lasersen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.type.qualificationlevelDoctoralen_US
dc.type.qualificationnamePhD Doctor of Philosophyen_US
dc.publisher.institutionThe University of St Andrewsen_US


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