Organic photonics

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: Organic-inorganic nanoparticle gain media are nanocomposites developed for solid-state dye lasers[3] and can also be used in biosensors,[5] bioanalytics,[5] and nonlinear organic photonics applications.

[6] An additional class of organic materials used in the generation of laser light include organic semiconductors.

[7][8] Conjugated polymers are widely used as optically pumped organic semiconductors.

Molecular structure of the Rhodamine 6G dye which is often used to dope a polymer such as PMMA to create a solid-state organic gain medium.
PMMA repeating unit.