Organic microlasers have attracted much attention due to their unique features such as high mechanical flexibility, facile doping of gain materials, high optical quality, simplicity and low‐cost fabrication. However, organic gain materials usually suffer from aggregation‐caused quenching (ACQ), preventing further advances of organic microlasers. Here, a new type of microlaser from aggregation‐induced emission (AIE) material is successfully demonstrated. By introducing a typical noncrystalline AIE material, a high quality microlaser is obtained via a surface tension‐induced self‐assembly approach. Distinct from conventional organic microlasers, the organic luminescent material used here is initially nonluminescent but can shine after aggregation under optical pumping. Further investigations demonstrate that AIE‐based microlasers exhibit advantages to enable much higher doping concentrations, which provides an alternative way to improved lasing performance including dramatically reduced threshold and favorable lasing stability. It is believed that these results could provide a promising way to extend the content of microlasers and open a new avenue to enable applications ranging from chemical sensing to biology.
Nanocrystal-in-glass (NIG) composites have emerged as the alternative to their glass and crystal counterparts, and demonstrated their significant applications, including all-solid battery
Carbazole precursors were used to prepare an octaphyrin. The conformation and electronic structure of the system could be modulated through trifluoroacetate (TFA) protonation and BF 2 complexation. The resulting nonaromatic macrocyclic complexes, 2-2TFA and 2-2BF 2 , displayed noteworthy photophysical properties. For instance, the diprotonated species 2-2TFA showed a strong panchromic absorption up to 800 nm, while the bis-BF 2 -chelated dipyrromethene (BODIPY)-like complex 2-2BF 2 exhibited an intense visible absorption feature (ε 535nm = 2.1 × 10 5 M −1 cm −1 ), as well as a relatively red-shifted emission at 640 nm characterized by a large Stokes shift. It was found that 2-2BF 2 could be used to construct a high-quality organic microlaser that functions under optical pumping. The present study highlights the potential utility of expanded porphyrins as possible laser dyes.
The ability to manipulate microlaser performance is highly desirable so as to promote on-chip classical and quantum information-processing technology. Here, we demonstrate that mode manipulation of bottle microresonators is enabled by precise deposition of single gold nanoparticles in a reconfigurable and selective manner. Numerical investigation reveals the mechanism of introducing optical loss via single Au NP scattering. Experimental results show that the lasing action of cavity modes could be efficiently suppressed, and single mode lasing is successfully achieved with a high side mode suppression factor ∼13 dB.
Newly emergent type-II Weyl semimetals with topological surface states so-called Fermi arcs have attracted much attention for their novel physical properties and potential application in quantum devices. Here, we investigate the in-plane anisotropic structure and inversion symmetry breaking by angle-resolved polarized Raman and second harmonic generation and observe the anisotropic Shubnikov-de Haas effect in Weyl Semimetal MoTe2, which is only present in the b-axis (armchair chain) direction. First-principles calculation depicts the type-II Weyl points and clear topological Fermi arcs. A nontrivial π Berry's phase from Landau quantization and an extra-quantum oscillation frequency arising by Weyl orbit are obtained, which provide evidence for the existence of an anisotropic type-II Weyl state in MoTe2. This work reveals the nontrivial topological surface state of Weyl semimetal MoTe2 in both theory and experiment, providing a promising platform for unique physical properties and applications in quantum information processing.
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