Vertically emitting indium phosphide nanowire lasers

Xu, Wei-Zong and Ren, Fang-Fang and Jevtics, Dimitars and Hurtado, Antonio and Li, Li and Gao, Qian and Ye, Jiangdong and Wang, Fan and Guilhabert, Benoit and Fu, Lan and Lu, Hai and Zhang, Rong and Tan, Hark Hoe and Dawson, Martin D. and Jagadish, Chennupati (2018) Vertically emitting indium phosphide nanowire lasers. Nano Letters, 18 (6). pp. 3414-3420. ISSN 1530-6992 (https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.8b00334)

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Abstract

Semiconductor nanowire (NW) lasers have attracted considerable research effort given their excellent promise for nanoscale photonic sources. However, NW lasers currently exhibit poor directionality and high threshold gain, issues critically limiting their prospects for on-chip light sources with extremely reduced footprint and efficient power consumption. Here, we propose a new design and experimentally demonstrate a vertically emitting indium phosphide (InP) NW laser structure showing high emission directionality and reduced energy requirements for operation. The structure of the laser combines an InP NW integrated in a cat's eye (CE) antenna. Thanks to the antenna guidance with broken asymmetry, strong focusing ability, and high Q-factor, the designed InP CE-NW lasers exhibit a higher degree of polarization, narrower emission angle, enhanced internal quantum efficiency, and reduced lasing threshold. Hence, this NW laser−antenna system provides a very promising approach toward the achievement of high-performance nanoscale lasers, with excellent prospects for use as highly localized light sources in present and future integrated nanophotonics systems for applications in advanced sensing, high-resolution imaging, and quantum communications.

  • Item type:Article
    ID code:64388
    Dates:
    Date
    Event
    13 June 2018
    Published
    21 May 2018
    Published Online
    21 May 2018
    Accepted
    Notes:This document is the Accepted Manuscript version of a Published Work that appeared in final form in Nano Letters, copyright © American Chemical Society after peer review and technical editing by the publisher. To access the final edited and published work see https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.8b00334.
    Subjects:Science > Physics > Optics. Light
    Department:Faculty of Science > Physics
    Faculty of Science > Physics > Institute of Photonics
    Depositing user: Pure Administrator
    Date deposited:11 Jun 2018 10:52
    Last modified:19 Apr 2024 00:21
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    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/64388
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