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, d ~ 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 Q 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.
Low-dimensional ZnO, possessing well-defined side facets
and optical
gain properties, has emerged as a promising material to develop ultraviolet
coherent light sources. However, the realization of electrically driven
ZnO homojunction luminescence and laser devices is still a challenge
due to the absence of a reliable p-type ZnO. Herein, the sample of
p-type ZnO microwires doped by Sb (ZnO:Sb MWs) was synthesized individually.
Subsequently, the p-type conductivity was examined using a single-MW
field-effect transistor. Upon optical pumping, a ZnO:Sb MW showing
a regular hexagonal cross-section and smooth sidewall facets can feature
as an optical microcavity, which is evidenced by the achievement of
whispering-gallery-mode lasing. By combining an n-type ZnO layer,
a single ZnO:Sb MW homojunction light-emitting diode (LED), which
exhibited a typical ultraviolet emission at a wavelength of 379.0
nm and a line-width of approximately 23.5 nm, was constructed. We
further illustrated that strong exciton-photon coupling can occur
in the as-constructed p-ZnO:Sb MW/n-ZnO homojunction LED by researching
spatially resolved electroluminescence spectra, contributing to the
exciton-polariton effect. Particularly, varying the cross-sectional
dimensions of ZnO:Sb wires can further modulate the exciton-photon
coupling strengths. We anticipate that the results can provide an
effective exemplification to realize reliable p-type ZnO and tremendously
promote the development of low-dimensional ZnO homojunction optoelectronic
devices.
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