Tunable artificial plasmonic nanolaser with wide spectrum emission operating at room temperature

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/ad2dca

Abstract With the rapid development of information and communication technology, a key objective in the field of optoelectronic integrated devices is to reduce the nano-laser size and energy consumption. Photonics nanolasers are unable to exceed the diffraction limit and typically exhibit low modulation rates of several GHz. In contrast, plasmonic nanolaser utilizes highly confined surface plasmon polariton (SPP) mode that can exceed diffraction limit and their strong Purcell effect can accelerate the modulation rates to several THz. Herein, we propose a parametrically tunable artificial plasmonic nanolasers based on metal-insulator-semiconductor-insulator-metal (MISIM) structure, which demonstrates its ability to compress the mode field volume to $\lambda /14$. As the pump power increases, the proposed artificial plasmonic nanolaser exhibits 20-nm-wide output spectrum. Additionally, we investigate the effects of various cavity parameters on the nanolaser's output threshold, offering potentials for realizing low-threshold artificial plasmonic nanolasers. Moreover, we observe a blue shift in the center wavelength of the nanolaser output with thinner gain layer thickness, predominantly attributed to the increased exciton-photon coupling strength. Our work brings inspiration to several areas, including spaser-based interconnects, nano-LEDs, spontaneous emission control, miniaturization of photon condensates, eigenmode engineering of plasmonic nanolasers, and optimal design driven by artificial intelligence (AI).

Keywords: surface plasmon polaritons nanolaser ultrafast MISIM

Received: 28 December 2023
Revised: 20 February 2024
Accepted manuscript online: 28 February 2024

PACS:	42.55.Px	(Semiconductor lasers; laser diodes)
	68.47.Fg	(Semiconductor surfaces)
	52.25.Os	(Emission, absorption, and scattering of electromagnetic radiation ?)
	81.07.Gf	(Nanowires)

Fund: Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 12174037, 12204061, 12204030, and 62375003), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, China (Grant No. 2022XD-A09), and the Fund from the State Key Laboratory of Information Photonics and Optical Communication, China (Grant No. IPOC2021ZZ02).

Corresponding Authors: Li Yu
E-mail: yuliyuli@bupt.edu.cn

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Peng Zhou(周鹏), Jia-Qi Guo(郭佳琦), Kun Liang(梁琨), Lei Jin(金磊), Xiong-Yu Liang(梁熊玉), Jun-Qiang Li(李俊强), Xu-Yan Deng(邓绪彦), Jian-Yu Qin(秦建宇), Jia-Sen Zhang(张家森), and Li Yu(于丽) Tunable artificial plasmonic nanolaser with wide spectrum emission operating at room temperature 2024 Chin. Phys. B 33 054210

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