• F. J. Duarte and L. W. Hillman (Eds.), Dye Laser Principles (Academic, New York, 1990).
• F. P. Schäfer (Ed.), Dye Lasers, 3rd Ed. (Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1990).
• F. J. Duarte (Ed.), High Power Dye Lasers (Springer-Verlag, Berlin,1991).
• F. J. Duarte (Ed.), Selected Papers on Dye Lasers (SPIE, Bellingham Wa, 1992).
• F. J. Duarte (Ed.), Tunable Lasers Handbook (Academic, New York, 1995).

These compact dispersive laser oscillators have been shown to yield beam divergences ~ 1.5 times the diffraction limit and single-longitudinal-mode emission at laser linewidths of ~ 350 MHz. Emission pulses are in the ns regime at peak powers in the kW range. Continuous tunability has been demonstrated in the 550-600 nm region.

• F. J. Duarte, Solid-state multiple-prism grating dye laser oscillators, Appl. Opt. 33, 3857-3860 (1994).
• F. J. Duarte, Solid-state dispersive dye laser oscillator: very compact cavity, Opt. Commun. 117, 480-484 (1995).
• F. J. Duarte, Multiple-prism near-grazing-incidence grating solid-state dye laser oscillator, Opt. Laser Technol. 29, 513-516 (1997).
• F. J. Duarte, Multiple-prism grating solid-state dye laser oscillator: optimized architecture, Appl. Opt. 38, 6347-6349 (1999).

• W.J. Wadsworth et al., Efficient distributed feedback solid state dye laser with a dynamic grating, Appl. Phys. B 69, 163-165 (1999).
• X. Zhu et al., Distributed-feedback dye-doped solgel silicate lasers, Appl. Opt. 39, 3104-3107 (2000).
• Y. Oki et al., Long lifetime and high repetition rate operation from distributed feedback plastic waveguided dye lasers, Opt. Commun. 214, 277-283 (2002).
• Y. Oki et al., Wide-wavelength range operation of a distributed-feedback dye laser with a plastic waveguide, Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 41, 6370-6374 (2002).
• D. Gindre et al., Refractive-index saturation-mediated multiple line emission in polymer thin-film distributed- feedback lasers, Opt. Lett. 31, 1657-1659 (2006).

• A. Maslyukov et al., Solid state dye laser with modified poly(methyl methacrylate)-doped active elements, Appl. Opt. 34, 1516-1518 (1995).
• W. Holzer et al., Photo-physical characterization of rhodamine 6 G in a 2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate methyl methacrylate copolymer, Chem. Phys. 256, 125-136 (2000).
• F. J. Duarte and R. O. James, Tunable solid-state lasers incorporating dye-doped polymer-nanoparticle gain media, Opt. Lett. 28, 2088-2090 (2003).
• F. J. Duarte and R. O. James, Spatial structure of dye-doped polymer-nanoparticle laser media, Appl. Opt. 43, 4088-4090 (2004).
• A. Costela el at., Silicon-containing organic matrices as hosts for highly photostable solid-state dye lasers, Appl. Phys. Lett. 85, 2160-2162 (2004).
• H. Watanabe et al., Waveguide dye laser including a SiO₂ nanoparticle-dispersed random scattering active media, Appl. Phys. Lett. 86, 151123 (2005).
• A. Costela el at., Highly photostable solid-state dye lasers based on silicon-modified organic matrices, J. Appl. Phys. 101, 073110 (2007).

The search for the electrically-excited organic laser has a long history. These three papers report on the first successful observation of coherent emission from electrically-excited organic semiconductors. The gain medium in these interferometric emitters is the laser dye coumarin 545 tetramethyl. The emission is generated in a miniature, sub micrometer, resonator. The emission beam is nearly diffraction limited and the spectral linewidth has been determined, using interferometric means, to be ~ 11 nm (at half width) which approximates the linewidths available from broadband dye lasers. Work is in progress to elucidate the origin of the observed coherence.

• F. J. Duarte, L. S. Liao, and K. M. Vaeth, Coherence characteristics of electrically excited tandem organic light-emitting diodes, Opt. Lett. 30, 3072-3074 (2005).
  
  
  
  
• F. J. Duarte, Coherent electrically-excited organic semiconductors: visibility of interferograms and emission linewidth, Opt. Lett. 32, 412-414 (2007).
  
  
  
  
• F. J. Duarte, Coherent electrically excited organic semiconductors: coherent or laser emission?, Appl. Phys. B 90, 101-108 (2008).
  
  

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