1. Perovskite Quantum Dot Lasing in a Gap-Plasmon Nanocavity with Ultralow Threshold
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Bo-Wei Hsu, Ta-Jen Yen, Kang-Ning Peng, Yu-Hung Hsieh, Kuan-Wei Lee, Yu-Jung Lu, Chih-Wei Chu, Shu-Wei Chang, and Hao-Wu Lin
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Mode volume ,Active laser medium ,Materials science ,business.industry ,Nanolaser ,General Engineering ,Physics::Optics ,General Physics and Astronomy ,Plasmonic Circuitry ,02 engineering and technology ,010402 general chemistry ,021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology ,01 natural sciences ,0104 chemical sciences ,Quantum dot ,Optoelectronics ,General Materials Science ,0210 nano-technology ,business ,Lasing threshold ,Tunable laser ,Plasmon - Abstract
Lead halide perovskite materials have recently received considerable attention for achieving an economic and tunable laser owing to their solution-processable feature and promising optical properties. However, most reported perovskite-based lasers operate with a large lasing-mode volume, resulting in a high lasing threshold due to the inefficient coupling between the optical gain medium and cavity. Here, we demonstrate a continuous-wave nanolasing from a single lead halide perovskite (CsPbBr3) quantum dot (PQD) in a plasmonic gap-mode nanocavity with an ultralow threshold of 1.9 Wcm-2 under 120 K. The calculated ultrasmall mode volume (∼0.002 λ3) with a z-polarized dipole and the significantly large Purcell enhancement at the corner of the nanocavity inside the gap dramatically enhance the light-matter interaction in the nanocavity, thus facilitating lasing. The demonstration of PQD nanolasing with an ultralow-threshold provides an approach for realizing on-chip electrically driven lasing and integration into on-chip plasmonic circuitry for ultrafast optical communication and quantum information processing.
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- 2020