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Nature 397, 294-295 (28 January 1999) | doi:10.1038/16793

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Solid-state lasers:  Lasing from a molecular sieve

Stephen R. Forrest1

Lasers using organic dyes suspended in solution have been a fixture in optics labs for more than 30 years. They have high output powers and broad tunability over the entire visible spectrum, finding many applications, for instance in molecular spectroscopy.

  1. Stephen R. Forrest is in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Center for Photonics and Optoelectronic Materials, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA.
    e-mail: Email: forrest@ee.princeton.edu