Electrically driven single microwire-based single-mode microlaser

Xiangbo Zhou; Mingming Jiang; Kai Xu; Maosheng Liu; Shulin Sha; Shuiyan Cao; Caixia Kan; Da Ning Shi

doi:10.1038/s41377-022-00874-w

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Electrically driven single microwire-based single-mode microlaser

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- Electrically driven single microwire-based single-mode microlaser
- Light: Science & Applications Vol. 11, Issue 8, Pages: 1799-1810(2022)
- Affiliations：
  
  College of Physics, MIIT Key Laboratory of Aerospace Information Materials and Physics, Key Laboratory for Intelligent Nano Materials and Devices, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, No. 29 Jiangjun Road, Nanjing, 211106, China
- Author bio：
  
  Mingming Jiang (mmjiang@nuaa.edu.cn)
  Caixia Kan (cxkan@nuaa.edu.cn)
  Da Ning Shi (shi@nuaa.edu.cn)
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- DOI：10.1038/s41377-022-00874-w
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- Published：31 August 2022，
  
  Published Online：29 June 2022，
  
  Received：18 February 2022，
  
  Revised：05 June 2022，
  
  Accepted：07 June 2022
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Zhou, X. B. et al. Electrically driven single microwire-based single-mode microlaser. Light: Science & Applications, 11, 1799-1810 (2022).
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Zhou, X. B. et al. Electrically driven single microwire-based single-mode microlaser. Light: Science & Applications, 11, 1799-1810 (2022). DOI： 10.1038/s41377-022-00874-w.

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Abstract

Engineering the lasing-mode oscillations effectively within a laser cavity is a relatively updated attentive study and perplexing issue in the field of laser physics and applications. Herein

we report a realization of electrically driven single-mode microlaser

which is composed of gallium incorporated zinc oxide microwire (ZnO: Ga MW) with platinum nanoparticles (PtNPs

~ 130 nm) covering

a magnesium oxide (MgO) nanofilm

a Pt nanofilm

and a p-type GaN substrate. The laser cavity modes could resonate following the whispering-gallery mode (WGM) among the six side surfaces by total internal reflection

and the single-mode lasing wavelength is centered at 390.5 nm with a linewidth of about 0.18 nm. The cavity quality factor

is evaluated to about 2169. In the laser structure

the usage of Pt and MgO buffer layers can be utilized to engineer the band alignment of ZnO: Ga/GaN heterojunction

optimize the p-n junction quality and increase the current injection. Thus

the well-designed device structure can seamlessly unite the electron-hole recombination region

the gain medium

and optical microresonator into the PtNPs@ZnO: Ga wire perfectly. Such a single MW microlaser is essentially single-mode regardless of the gain spectral bandwidth. To study the single-mode operation

PtNPs working as superabsorber can engineering the multimode lasing actions of ZnO: Ga MWs even if their dimensions are typically much larger than that of lasing wavelength. Our findings can provide a straightforward and effective scheme to develop single-mode microlaser devices based on one-dimensional wire semiconductors.

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