Tuneable red, green, and blue single-mode lasing in heterogeneously coupled organic spherical microcavities

Yuxiang Du; Chang-Ling Zou; Chunhuan Zhang; Kang Wang; Chan Qiao; Jiannian Yao; Yong Sheng Zhao

doi:10.1038/s41377-020-00392-7

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Tuneable red, green, and blue single-mode lasing in heterogeneously coupled organic spherical microcavities

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- Tuneable red, green, and blue single-mode lasing in heterogeneously coupled organic spherical microcavities
- Light: Science & Applications Vol. 9, Issue 5, Pages: 1464-1472(2020)
- Affiliations：
  
  1.CAS Key Laboratory of Photochemistry, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
  2.University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
  3.Key Laboratory of Quantum Information, and Synergetic Innovation Center of Quantum Information and Quantum Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
- Author bio：
  
  Yong Sheng Zhao (yszhao@iccas.ac.cn)
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- DOI：10.1038/s41377-020-00392-7
  CLC：
- Published：2020，
  
  Published Online：28 August 2020，
  
  Received：19 May 2020，
  
  Revised：02 August 2020，
  
  Accepted：19 August 2020
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Du, Y. X. et al. Tuneable red, green, and blue single-mode lasing in heterogeneously coupled organic spherical microcavities. Light: Science & Applications, 9, 1464-1472 (2020).
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Du, Y. X. et al. Tuneable red, green, and blue single-mode lasing in heterogeneously coupled organic spherical microcavities. Light: Science & Applications, 9, 1464-1472 (2020). DOI： 10.1038/s41377-020-00392-7.

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Abstract

Tuneable microlasers that span the full visible spectrum

particularly red

green

and blue (RGB) colors

are of crucial importance for various optical devices. However

RGB microlasers usually operate in multimode because the mode selection strategy cannot be applied to the entire visible spectrum simultaneously

which has severely restricted their applications in on-chip optical processing and communication. Here

an approach for the generation of tuneable multicolor single-mode lasers in heterogeneously coupled microresonators composed of distinct spherical microcavities is proposed. With each microcavity serving as both a whispering-gallery-mode (WGM) resonator and a modulator for the other microcavities

a single-mode laser has been achieved. The colors of the single-mode lasers can be freely designed by changing the optical gain in coupled cavities owing to the flexibility of the organic materials. Benefiting from the excellent compatibility

distinct color-emissive microspheres can be integrated to form a heterogeneously coupled system

where tuneable RGB single-mode lasing is realized owing to the capability for optical coupling between multiple resonators. Our findings provide a comprehensive understanding of the lasing modulation that might lead to innovation in structure designs for photonic integration.

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