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1. G. S. He, L.-S. Tan, Q. Zheng, and P. N. Prasad, “Multiphoton absorbing materials: molecular designs, characterizations, and applications,” Chem. Rev.108(4), 1245–1330 (2008). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
2. G. S. He, P. P. Markowicz, T.-C. Lin, and P. N. Prasad, “Observation of stimulated emission by direct three-photon excitation,” Nature415(6873), 767–770 (2002). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
3. C. Zhang, C.-L. Zou, Y. L. Yan, R. Hao, F.-W. Sun, Z.-F. Han, Y. S. Zhao, and J. Yao, “Two-photon pumped lasing in single-crystal organic nanowire exciton polariton resonators,” J. Am. Chem. Soc.133(19), 7276–7279 (2011). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
4. G. S. He, J. D. Bhawalkar, C. F. Zhao, C. K. Park, and P. N. Prasad, “Upconversion dye-doped polymer fiber laser,” Appl. Phys. Lett.68(25), 3549–3551 (1996). [CrossRef]
5. G. S. He, Q. Zheng, P. N. Prasad, J. G. Grote, and F. K. Hopkins, “Infrared two-photon-excited visible lasing from a DNA-surfactant-chromophore complex,” Opt. Lett.31(3), 359–361 (2006). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
6. G. S. He, R. Helgeson, T. C. Lin, Q. D. Zheng, F. Wudl, and P. N. Prasad, “One-, two-, and three-photon pumped lasing in a novel liquid dye salt system,” IEEE J. Quantum Electron.39(8), 1003–1008 (2003). [CrossRef]
7. C. Bauer, B. Schnabel, E.-B. Kley, U. Scherf, H. Giessen, and R. F. Mahrt, “Two-photon pumped lasing from two-dimensional photonic bandgap structure with polymeric gain material,” Adv. Mater. (Deerfield Beach Fla.)14(9), 673–676 (2002). [CrossRef]
8. G. Tsiminis, A. Ruseckas, I. D. W. Samuel, and G. A. Turnbull, “A two-photon pumped polyfluorene laser,” Appl. Phys. Lett.94(25), 253304 (2009). [CrossRef]
9. F. Scotognella, D. P. Puzzo, M. Zavelaini-Rossi, J. Clark, M. Sebastian, G. A. Ozin, and G. Lanzani, “Two-photon poly(phenylenevinylene) DFB laser,” Chem. Mater.23(3), 805–809 (2011). [CrossRef]
10. C. F. Zhang, Z. W. Dong, G. J. You, S. X. Qian, and H. Deng, “Multiphoton route to ZnO nanowire lasers,” Opt. Lett.31(22), 3345–3347 (2006). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
11. C. F. Zhang, F. Zhang, T. Zhu, A. Cheng, J. Xu, Q. Zhang, S. E. Mohney, R. H. Henderson, and Y. A. Wang, “Two-photon-pumped lasing from colloidal nanocrystal quantum dots,” Opt. Lett.33(21), 2437–2439 (2008). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
12. C. F. Zhang, F. Zhang, A. Cheng, B. Kimball, A. Y. Wang, and J. Xu, “Frequency up-converted lasing of nanocrystal quantum dots in microbeads,” Appl. Phys. Lett.95(18), 183109 (2009). [CrossRef]
13. C. F. Zhang, F. Zhang, X. W. Sun, Y. Yang, J. Wang, and J. Xu, “Frequency-upconverted whispering-gallery-mode lasing in ZnO hexagonal nanodisks,” Opt. Lett.34(21), 3349–3351 (2009). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
14. G. P. Zhu, C. X. Xu, J. Zhu, C. G. Lv, and Y. P. Cui, “Two-photon excited whispering-gallery mode ultraviolet laser from an individual ZnO microneedle,” Appl. Phys. Lett.94(5), 051106 (2009). [CrossRef]
15. G. S. He, C. F. Zhao, J. D. Bhawalkar, and P. N. Prasad, “Two-photon pumped cavity lasing in novel dye doped bulk matrix rods,” Appl. Phys. Lett.67(25), 3703–3705 (1995). [CrossRef]
16. J. J. Jasieniak, I. Fortunati, S. Gardin, R. Signorini, R. Bozio, A. Martucci, and P. Mulvaney, “Highly efficient amplified spontaneous emission from CdSe-CdS-ZnS quantum dot doped waveguides with two-photon infrared optical pumping,” Adv. Mater. (Deerfield Beach Fla.)20(1), 69–73 (2008). [CrossRef]
17. V. I. Klimov, A. A. Mikhailovsky, S. Xu, A. Malko, J. A. Hollingsworth, C. A. Leatherdale, H.-J. Eisler, and M. G. Bawendi, “Optical gain and stimulated emission in nanocrystal quantum dots,” Science290(5490), 314–317 (2000). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
18. D. Moses, “High quantum efficiency luminescence from a conducting polymer in solution: a novel polymer laser dye,” Appl. Phys. Lett.60(26), 3215–3216 (1992). [CrossRef]
19. F. Hide, M. A. Diaz-Garcia, B. J. Schwartz, M. R. Andersson, Q. Pei, and A. J. Heeger, “Semiconducting polymers: a new class of solid-state laser materials,” Science273(5283), 1833–1836 (1996). [CrossRef]
20. N. Tessler, G. J. Denton, and R. H. Friend, “Lasing from conjugate-polymer microcavities,” Nature382(6593), 695–697 (1996). [CrossRef]
21. M. D. McGehee and A. J. Heeger, “Semiconducting (conjugated) polymers as materials for solid-state lasers,” Adv. Mater. (Deerfield Beach Fla.)12(22), 1655–1668 (2000). [CrossRef]
22. V. G. Kozlov, V. Bulovic, P. E. Burroughs, and S. R. Forrest, “Laser action in organic semiconductor waveguide and double-heterostructure devices,” Nature389(6649), 362–364 (1997). [CrossRef]
23. I. D. W. Samuel and G. A. Turnbull, “Organic semiconductor lasers,” Chem. Rev.107(4), 1272–1295 (2007). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
24. H. Kim, N. Schulte, G. Zhou, K. Mullen, and F. Laquai, “A high gain and high charge carrier mobility indenofluorene-phenathrene copolymer for light amplication and organic lasing,” Adv. Mater. (Deerfield Beach Fla.)23(7), 894–897 (2011). [CrossRef]
25. P. Görrn, M. Lehnhardt, W. Kowalsky, T. Riedl, and S. Wagner, “Elastically tunable self-organized organic lasers,” Adv. Mater. (Deerfield Beach Fla.)23(7), 869–872 (2011). [CrossRef]
26. A. E. Vasdekis, G. Tsiminis, J.-C. Ribierre, L. O’ Faolain, T. F. Krauss, G. A. Turnbull, and I. D. W. Samuel, “Diode pumped distributed Bragg reflector lasers based on a dye-to-polymer energy transfer blend,” Opt. Express14(20), 9211–9216 (2006). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
27. A. R. Clapp, T. Pons, I. L. Medintz, J. B. Delehanty, J. S. Melinger, T. Tiefenbrunn, P. E. Dawson, B. R. Fisher, B. O’Rourke, and H. Mattoussi, “Two-photon excitation of quantum-dot-based fluorescence resonance energy transfer and its applications,” Adv. Mater. (Deerfield Beach Fla.)19(15), 1921–1926 (2007). [CrossRef]
28. Th. Förster, “Zwischenmolekulare energiewanderung und fluoreszenz,” Ann. Phys.437(1-2), 55–75 (1948). [CrossRef]
29. J. R. Lakowicz, Principles of Fluorescence Spectroscopy, 2nd ed. (Kluwer, New York, 1999).
30. I. B. Martini, A. D. Smith, and B. J. Schwartz, “Exciton-exciton annihilation and the production of interchain species in conjugated polymer films: comparing the ultrafast stimulated emission and photoluminescence dynamics of MEH-PPV,” Phys. Rev. B69(3), 035204 (2004). [CrossRef]
31. S. C. Jeoung, D. H. Jeong, T. Ahn, J.-Y. Han, M.-S. Jang, H.-K. Shim, and D. Kim, “Direct probe of spectrally narrowed emission from π-conjugated polymers: the elucidation for spectral line narrowing,” J. Phys. Chem. B106(35), 8921–8927 (2002). [CrossRef]
32. J.-W. Yu, J. K. Kim, D. Y. Kim, C. Kim, N. W. Song, and D. Kim, “Prediction of efficient energy transfer in emissive polymer blends based on Föster radius and the excited state lifetime of acceptors,” Curr. Appl. Phys.6(1), 59–65 (2006). [CrossRef]
33. V. G. Kozlov, V. Bulovic, P. E. Burrows, M. Baldo, V. B. Khalfin, G. Parthasarathy, S. R. Forrest, Y. You, and M. E. Thompson, “Study of lasing action based on Foester energy transfer in optically pumped organic semiconductor thin films,” J. Appl. Phys.84(8), 4096–4108 (1998). [CrossRef]
34. C. Z. Ning, “Semiconductor nanolasers,” Phys. Status Solidi B247, 774–788 (2010).
35. R. Yan, D. Gargas, and P. D. Yang, “Nanowire photonics,” Nat. Photonics3(10), 569–576 (2009). [CrossRef]
36. A. Rose, Z. Zhu, C. F. Madigan, T. M. Swager, and V. Bulović, “Sensitivity gains in chemosensing by lasing action in organic polymers,” Nature434(7035), 876–879 (2005). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
37. L. N. He, S. K. Ozdemir, J. G. Zhu, W. Kim, and L. Yang, “Detecting single viruses and nanoparticles using whispering gallery microlasers,” Nat. Nanotechnol.6(7), 428–432 (2011). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

Adv. Mater. (Deerfield Beach Fla.)

• C. Bauer, B. Schnabel, E.-B. Kley, U. Scherf, H. Giessen, and R. F. Mahrt, “Two-photon pumped lasing from two-dimensional photonic bandgap structure with polymeric gain material,” Adv. Mater. (Deerfield Beach Fla.)14(9), 673–676 (2002). [CrossRef]
• J. J. Jasieniak, I. Fortunati, S. Gardin, R. Signorini, R. Bozio, A. Martucci, and P. Mulvaney, “Highly efficient amplified spontaneous emission from CdSe-CdS-ZnS quantum dot doped waveguides with two-photon infrared optical pumping,” Adv. Mater. (Deerfield Beach Fla.)20(1), 69–73 (2008). [CrossRef]
• M. D. McGehee and A. J. Heeger, “Semiconducting (conjugated) polymers as materials for solid-state lasers,” Adv. Mater. (Deerfield Beach Fla.)12(22), 1655–1668 (2000). [CrossRef]
• H. Kim, N. Schulte, G. Zhou, K. Mullen, and F. Laquai, “A high gain and high charge carrier mobility indenofluorene-phenathrene copolymer for light amplication and organic lasing,” Adv. Mater. (Deerfield Beach Fla.)23(7), 894–897 (2011). [CrossRef]
• P. Görrn, M. Lehnhardt, W. Kowalsky, T. Riedl, and S. Wagner, “Elastically tunable self-organized organic lasers,” Adv. Mater. (Deerfield Beach Fla.)23(7), 869–872 (2011). [CrossRef]
• A. R. Clapp, T. Pons, I. L. Medintz, J. B. Delehanty, J. S. Melinger, T. Tiefenbrunn, P. E. Dawson, B. R. Fisher, B. O’Rourke, and H. Mattoussi, “Two-photon excitation of quantum-dot-based fluorescence resonance energy transfer and its applications,” Adv. Mater. (Deerfield Beach Fla.)19(15), 1921–1926 (2007). [CrossRef]

Ann. Phys.

• Th. Förster, “Zwischenmolekulare energiewanderung und fluoreszenz,” Ann. Phys.437(1-2), 55–75 (1948). [CrossRef]

Appl. Phys. Lett.

• D. Moses, “High quantum efficiency luminescence from a conducting polymer in solution: a novel polymer laser dye,” Appl. Phys. Lett.60(26), 3215–3216 (1992). [CrossRef]
• G. P. Zhu, C. X. Xu, J. Zhu, C. G. Lv, and Y. P. Cui, “Two-photon excited whispering-gallery mode ultraviolet laser from an individual ZnO microneedle,” Appl. Phys. Lett.94(5), 051106 (2009). [CrossRef]
• G. S. He, C. F. Zhao, J. D. Bhawalkar, and P. N. Prasad, “Two-photon pumped cavity lasing in novel dye doped bulk matrix rods,” Appl. Phys. Lett.67(25), 3703–3705 (1995). [CrossRef]
• C. F. Zhang, F. Zhang, A. Cheng, B. Kimball, A. Y. Wang, and J. Xu, “Frequency up-converted lasing of nanocrystal quantum dots in microbeads,” Appl. Phys. Lett.95(18), 183109 (2009). [CrossRef]
• G. Tsiminis, A. Ruseckas, I. D. W. Samuel, and G. A. Turnbull, “A two-photon pumped polyfluorene laser,” Appl. Phys. Lett.94(25), 253304 (2009). [CrossRef]
• G. S. He, J. D. Bhawalkar, C. F. Zhao, C. K. Park, and P. N. Prasad, “Upconversion dye-doped polymer fiber laser,” Appl. Phys. Lett.68(25), 3549–3551 (1996). [CrossRef]

Chem. Mater.

• F. Scotognella, D. P. Puzzo, M. Zavelaini-Rossi, J. Clark, M. Sebastian, G. A. Ozin, and G. Lanzani, “Two-photon poly(phenylenevinylene) DFB laser,” Chem. Mater.23(3), 805–809 (2011). [CrossRef]

Chem. Rev.

• G. S. He, L.-S. Tan, Q. Zheng, and P. N. Prasad, “Multiphoton absorbing materials: molecular designs, characterizations, and applications,” Chem. Rev.108(4), 1245–1330 (2008). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
• I. D. W. Samuel and G. A. Turnbull, “Organic semiconductor lasers,” Chem. Rev.107(4), 1272–1295 (2007). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

Curr. Appl. Phys.

• J.-W. Yu, J. K. Kim, D. Y. Kim, C. Kim, N. W. Song, and D. Kim, “Prediction of efficient energy transfer in emissive polymer blends based on Föster radius and the excited state lifetime of acceptors,” Curr. Appl. Phys.6(1), 59–65 (2006). [CrossRef]

IEEE J. Quantum Electron.

• G. S. He, R. Helgeson, T. C. Lin, Q. D. Zheng, F. Wudl, and P. N. Prasad, “One-, two-, and three-photon pumped lasing in a novel liquid dye salt system,” IEEE J. Quantum Electron.39(8), 1003–1008 (2003). [CrossRef]

J. Am. Chem. Soc.

• C. Zhang, C.-L. Zou, Y. L. Yan, R. Hao, F.-W. Sun, Z.-F. Han, Y. S. Zhao, and J. Yao, “Two-photon pumped lasing in single-crystal organic nanowire exciton polariton resonators,” J. Am. Chem. Soc.133(19), 7276–7279 (2011). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

J. Appl. Phys.

• V. G. Kozlov, V. Bulovic, P. E. Burrows, M. Baldo, V. B. Khalfin, G. Parthasarathy, S. R. Forrest, Y. You, and M. E. Thompson, “Study of lasing action based on Foester energy transfer in optically pumped organic semiconductor thin films,” J. Appl. Phys.84(8), 4096–4108 (1998). [CrossRef]

J. Phys. Chem. B

• S. C. Jeoung, D. H. Jeong, T. Ahn, J.-Y. Han, M.-S. Jang, H.-K. Shim, and D. Kim, “Direct probe of spectrally narrowed emission from π-conjugated polymers: the elucidation for spectral line narrowing,” J. Phys. Chem. B106(35), 8921–8927 (2002). [CrossRef]

Nat. Nanotechnol.

• L. N. He, S. K. Ozdemir, J. G. Zhu, W. Kim, and L. Yang, “Detecting single viruses and nanoparticles using whispering gallery microlasers,” Nat. Nanotechnol.6(7), 428–432 (2011). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

Nat. Photonics

• R. Yan, D. Gargas, and P. D. Yang, “Nanowire photonics,” Nat. Photonics3(10), 569–576 (2009). [CrossRef]

Nature

• A. Rose, Z. Zhu, C. F. Madigan, T. M. Swager, and V. Bulović, “Sensitivity gains in chemosensing by lasing action in organic polymers,” Nature434(7035), 876–879 (2005). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
• N. Tessler, G. J. Denton, and R. H. Friend, “Lasing from conjugate-polymer microcavities,” Nature382(6593), 695–697 (1996). [CrossRef]
• V. G. Kozlov, V. Bulovic, P. E. Burroughs, and S. R. Forrest, “Laser action in organic semiconductor waveguide and double-heterostructure devices,” Nature389(6649), 362–364 (1997). [CrossRef]
• G. S. He, P. P. Markowicz, T.-C. Lin, and P. N. Prasad, “Observation of stimulated emission by direct three-photon excitation,” Nature415(6873), 767–770 (2002). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

Opt. Express

• A. E. Vasdekis, G. Tsiminis, J.-C. Ribierre, L. O’ Faolain, T. F. Krauss, G. A. Turnbull, and I. D. W. Samuel, “Diode pumped distributed Bragg reflector lasers based on a dye-to-polymer energy transfer blend,” Opt. Express14(20), 9211–9216 (2006). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

Opt. Lett.

• G. S. He, Q. Zheng, P. N. Prasad, J. G. Grote, and F. K. Hopkins, “Infrared two-photon-excited visible lasing from a DNA-surfactant-chromophore complex,” Opt. Lett.31(3), 359–361 (2006). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
• C. F. Zhang, Z. W. Dong, G. J. You, S. X. Qian, and H. Deng, “Multiphoton route to ZnO nanowire lasers,” Opt. Lett.31(22), 3345–3347 (2006). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
• C. F. Zhang, F. Zhang, T. Zhu, A. Cheng, J. Xu, Q. Zhang, S. E. Mohney, R. H. Henderson, and Y. A. Wang, “Two-photon-pumped lasing from colloidal nanocrystal quantum dots,” Opt. Lett.33(21), 2437–2439 (2008). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
• C. F. Zhang, F. Zhang, X. W. Sun, Y. Yang, J. Wang, and J. Xu, “Frequency-upconverted whispering-gallery-mode lasing in ZnO hexagonal nanodisks,” Opt. Lett.34(21), 3349–3351 (2009). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

Phys. Rev. B

• I. B. Martini, A. D. Smith, and B. J. Schwartz, “Exciton-exciton annihilation and the production of interchain species in conjugated polymer films: comparing the ultrafast stimulated emission and photoluminescence dynamics of MEH-PPV,” Phys. Rev. B69(3), 035204 (2004). [CrossRef]

Phys. Status Solidi B

• C. Z. Ning, “Semiconductor nanolasers,” Phys. Status Solidi B247, 774–788 (2010).

Science

• F. Hide, M. A. Diaz-Garcia, B. J. Schwartz, M. R. Andersson, Q. Pei, and A. J. Heeger, “Semiconducting polymers: a new class of solid-state laser materials,” Science273(5283), 1833–1836 (1996). [CrossRef]
• V. I. Klimov, A. A. Mikhailovsky, S. Xu, A. Malko, J. A. Hollingsworth, C. A. Leatherdale, H.-J. Eisler, and M. G. Bawendi, “Optical gain and stimulated emission in nanocrystal quantum dots,” Science290(5490), 314–317 (2000). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

Other

• J. R. Lakowicz, Principles of Fluorescence Spectroscopy, 2nd ed. (Kluwer, New York, 1999).

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