All-Dielectric Nanolaser with Subnanometer Field Confinement

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Main Authors: Wu, Hao, Xu, Peizhen, Guo, Xin, Wang, Pan, Tong, Limin
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author Wu, Hao
Xu, Peizhen
Guo, Xin
Wang, Pan
Tong, Limin
author_facet Wu, Hao
Xu, Peizhen
Guo, Xin
Wang, Pan
Tong, Limin
contents The ability to generate a laser field with ultratight spatial confinement is important for pushing the limit of optical science and technology. Although plasmon lasers can offer sub-diffraction-confined laser fields, it is restricted by a trade-off between optical confinement and loss of free-electron oscillation in metals. We show here an all-dielectric nanolaser that can circumvent the confinement-loss trade-off, and offer a field confinement down to subnanometer level. The ultra-confined lasing field, supported by low-loss oscillation of polarized bound electrons surrounding a 1-nm-width slit in a coupled CdS nanowire pair, is manifested as the dominant peak of a TE0-like lasing mode around 520-nm wavelength, with a field confinement down to 0.23 nm and a peak-to-background ratio of ~32.7 dB. This laser may pave a way towards new regions for nanolasers and light-matter interaction.
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spellingShingle All-Dielectric Nanolaser with Subnanometer Field Confinement
Wu, Hao
Xu, Peizhen
Guo, Xin
Wang, Pan
Tong, Limin
Optics
The ability to generate a laser field with ultratight spatial confinement is important for pushing the limit of optical science and technology. Although plasmon lasers can offer sub-diffraction-confined laser fields, it is restricted by a trade-off between optical confinement and loss of free-electron oscillation in metals. We show here an all-dielectric nanolaser that can circumvent the confinement-loss trade-off, and offer a field confinement down to subnanometer level. The ultra-confined lasing field, supported by low-loss oscillation of polarized bound electrons surrounding a 1-nm-width slit in a coupled CdS nanowire pair, is manifested as the dominant peak of a TE0-like lasing mode around 520-nm wavelength, with a field confinement down to 0.23 nm and a peak-to-background ratio of ~32.7 dB. This laser may pave a way towards new regions for nanolasers and light-matter interaction.
title All-Dielectric Nanolaser with Subnanometer Field Confinement
topic Optics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.03220