ABSTRACT
Marco Carvelli, Guglielmo Lanzani, Stefano Perissinotto, Margherita Zavelani-Rossi, Giuseppe Gigli, Marco Salerno, and Luca Troisi
CONTENTS 6.1 Introduction ........................................................................................... 252 6.2 Photophysics of Conjugated Polymers ............................................... 253
6.2.1 Elementary Excitations in Conjugated Polymers ................. 253 6.2.2 Solid-State Effects...................................................................... 254 6.2.3 Excited State Dynamics and Charge Photogeneration ........ 255
6.3 Polymer Laser Dynamics ..................................................................... 260 6.3.1 Modeling .................................................................................... 260 6.3.2 Laser Dynamics, Temporal and Spectral
Characterization of Laser Pulses ............................................ 262 6.4 Distributed Feedback Lasers ............................................................... 267
6.4.1 Introduction to the Concept of Distributed Feedback Action ......................................................................................... 267
6.4.2 Theory of Coupled Modes ....................................................... 269 6.4.3 Uniform Grating ........................................................................274
