Ultra-thin curved visible microdisk lasers with three-dimensional whispering gallery modes
Microdisk lasers are important components in photonic integrated circuits (PICs), of which the whispering gallery modes (WGMs) are usually confined within a two-dimensional (2D) planar slab. Here, owing to the strain relaxation of quantum wells by wet-etching method, we present ultra-thin curved vis...
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doaj-6b8008e4beab47c799ce73aa8973078b2021-09-06T19:20:36ZengDe GruyterNanophotonics2192-86062192-86142020-07-01992997300210.1515/nanoph-2020-0242Ultra-thin curved visible microdisk lasers with three-dimensional whispering gallery modesZhou Taojie0Ng Kar Wei1Sun Xiankai2Zhang Zhaoyu3School of Science and Engineering and Shenzhen Key Lab of Semiconductor Lasers, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Guangdong, 518172, P.R. ChinaInstitute of Applied Physics and Materials Engineering, University of Macau, Avenida da Universidade, Taipa, Macao SAR, 999078, ChinaDepartment of Electronic Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong KongSchool of Science and Engineering and Shenzhen Key Lab of Semiconductor Lasers, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Guangdong, 518172, P.R. ChinaMicrodisk lasers are important components in photonic integrated circuits (PICs), of which the whispering gallery modes (WGMs) are usually confined within a two-dimensional (2D) planar slab. Here, owing to the strain relaxation of quantum wells by wet-etching method, we present ultra-thin curved visible microdisk lasers with single-mode lasing emission and a high quality factor of ∼17,000, which enable a 3D spatial intensity distribution of WGMs and provide an extra degree of freedom for the confined photons compared with the conventional 2D in-plane WGMs. The curved microdisk lasers with a 3D spatial profile of WGMs may provide attractive applications in flexible and multilevel photon sources for the PICs.https://doi.org/10.1515/nanoph-2020-0242high quality factormicrodisk laserswhispering gallery mode |
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Zhou Taojie Ng Kar Wei Sun Xiankai Zhang Zhaoyu Ultra-thin curved visible microdisk lasers with three-dimensional whispering gallery modes Nanophotonics high quality factor microdisk lasers whispering gallery mode |
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Zhou Taojie Ng Kar Wei Sun Xiankai Zhang Zhaoyu |
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Ultra-thin curved visible microdisk lasers with three-dimensional whispering gallery modes |
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Ultra-thin curved visible microdisk lasers with three-dimensional whispering gallery modes |
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Ultra-thin curved visible microdisk lasers with three-dimensional whispering gallery modes |
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Ultra-thin curved visible microdisk lasers with three-dimensional whispering gallery modes |
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Ultra-thin curved visible microdisk lasers with three-dimensional whispering gallery modes |
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ultra-thin curved visible microdisk lasers with three-dimensional whispering gallery modes |
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Nanophotonics |
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2192-8606 2192-8614 |
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Microdisk lasers are important components in photonic integrated circuits (PICs), of which the whispering gallery modes (WGMs) are usually confined within a two-dimensional (2D) planar slab. Here, owing to the strain relaxation of quantum wells by wet-etching method, we present ultra-thin curved visible microdisk lasers with single-mode lasing emission and a high quality factor of ∼17,000, which enable a 3D spatial intensity distribution of WGMs and provide an extra degree of freedom for the confined photons compared with the conventional 2D in-plane WGMs. The curved microdisk lasers with a 3D spatial profile of WGMs may provide attractive applications in flexible and multilevel photon sources for the PICs. |
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high quality factor microdisk lasers whispering gallery mode |
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https://doi.org/10.1515/nanoph-2020-0242 |
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