Abstract:A plasmonic nanolaser architecture that can produce white‐light emission is reported. A laser device is designed based on a mixed dye solution used as gain material sandwiched between two aluminum nanoparticle (NP) square lattices of different periodicities. The (±1, 0) and (±1, ±1) band‐edge surface lattice resonance (SLR) modes of one NP lattice and the (±1, 0) band‐edge mode of the other NP lattice function as nanocavity modes for red, blue, and green lasing respectively. From a single aluminum NP lattice, … Show more
“…Recently, a sandwich architecture based on two Al NP metasurfaces and a liquid gain layer has shown white-light lasing. 243 The device consisted of two Al NP lattices on two separate quartz substrates separated by a droplet of mixed dye solution (Figure 20b). Because of the micrometer-scale spatial separation of the two metasurfaces, interlayer coupling is negligible.…”
Section: Graphene and Semiconductors With Plasmonic Metasurfacesmentioning
This Review focuses on the integration
of plasmonic and dielectric
metasurfaces with emissive or stimuli-responsive materials for manipulating
light–matter interactions at the nanoscale. Metasurfaces, engineered
planar structures with rationally designed building blocks, can change
the local phase and intensity of electromagnetic waves at the subwavelength
unit level and offers more degrees of freedom to control the flow
of light. A combination of metasurfaces and nanoscale emitters facilitates
access to weak and strong coupling regimes for enhanced photoluminescence,
nanoscale lasing, controlled quantum emission, and formation of exciton–polaritons.
In addition to emissive materials, functional materials that respond
to external stimuli can be combined with metasurfaces to engineer
tunable nanophotonic devices. Emerging metasurface designs including
surface-functionalized, chemically tunable, and multilayer hybrid
metasurfaces open prospects for diverse applications, including photocatalysis,
sensing, displays, and quantum information.
“…Recently, a sandwich architecture based on two Al NP metasurfaces and a liquid gain layer has shown white-light lasing. 243 The device consisted of two Al NP lattices on two separate quartz substrates separated by a droplet of mixed dye solution (Figure 20b). Because of the micrometer-scale spatial separation of the two metasurfaces, interlayer coupling is negligible.…”
Section: Graphene and Semiconductors With Plasmonic Metasurfacesmentioning
This Review focuses on the integration
of plasmonic and dielectric
metasurfaces with emissive or stimuli-responsive materials for manipulating
light–matter interactions at the nanoscale. Metasurfaces, engineered
planar structures with rationally designed building blocks, can change
the local phase and intensity of electromagnetic waves at the subwavelength
unit level and offers more degrees of freedom to control the flow
of light. A combination of metasurfaces and nanoscale emitters facilitates
access to weak and strong coupling regimes for enhanced photoluminescence,
nanoscale lasing, controlled quantum emission, and formation of exciton–polaritons.
In addition to emissive materials, functional materials that respond
to external stimuli can be combined with metasurfaces to engineer
tunable nanophotonic devices. Emerging metasurface designs including
surface-functionalized, chemically tunable, and multilayer hybrid
metasurfaces open prospects for diverse applications, including photocatalysis,
sensing, displays, and quantum information.
“…After the first concept of a plasmonic nanolaser had been proposed based on amplifying the LSP mode of a metal nanoparticle, [41,239] a lot of plasmonic lasers were realized using metal-insulator films [240][241][242] and arrays of metal nanoparticles. [156,[243][244][245] Monolayer TMDs have direct bandgaps and an exciton binding energy larger than the thermal energy at room-temperature. These advantages make the monolayer TMDs behave as a promising gain material for room-temperature lasing based on the exciton transition.…”
Figure 6. a) Schematic and optical image of a nanolaser that consists of Si PC and monolayer Molybdenum telluride. b) i) The illustration of the upconversion nanolaser that consists of UCNPs coated on the plasmonic lattice. ii) The diagram exhibits the energy transfer mechanism in UCNP. c) Perovskite-based lasing device. Left upper illustration is the near-field profile representing third-order Mie resonance. SEM image shows the CsPbBr 3cube with a size of 310 nm. In the emission spectrum, an extremely sharp peak that stands for lasing action is observed. Inset represents the interference pattern that appears in the optical image of the perovskite cube. d) Perovskite-based BIC lasing device. Schematic shows the vortex lasing system composed of hole patterned perovskite film and a blue laser for pumping. i) The dispersion relation is photonic bands of the perovskite hole pattern in the direction of ΓX and ΓM around 550 nm. ii) The donut-shaped far-field profile and self-interference pattern. The white arrows denote the fork shape which means the vortex beam nature. (a) Reproduced with permission. [198] Copyright 2017, Springer Nature. (b) Reproduced with permission. [156]
“…SLR has been used for laser feedback, sensors, , meta-optics, and studying advanced light–matter interactions . The SLR wavelength (λ SLR ) is readily changed by modifying the lattice period or surrounding refractive index, and the utility of this property has been shown in examples such as tunable lasers, , white lasers, color generation, strain sensors, , and refractive index sensors . Additionally, the near-field distribution of the electromagnetic (EM) fields and the far-field scattering from the lattice can be controlled by changing the number − and type , of structures used within the unit cell, as well as the periodicity of the lattice. ,,, …”
Periodic arrays of metal nanostructures can host lattice resonances, which arise from coherent scattering between many structures in the lattice. These resonances are highly tunable with high quality factors and have found applications in lasers, biosensors, and metaoptics. Using bipartite lattices that have two structures per unit cell allows the sub/superradiant nature of the lattice resonances to be controlled, giving smaller line widths, multiple resonances, and resilience to finite-sized effects. In this work, we investigate the spectral and near-field properties of surface lattice resonances supported by asymmetric bipartite lattices. We show that these lattices host hybridized dipole resonances that can be elliptically polarized due to the overlap of two orthogonal resonances. We also show that, due to this, these resonances have a nontrivial phase relationship between orthogonal lattice resonances, which could expand the application of surface lattice resonance to vector and vortex beam generation with nonlinear polarizations. We demonstrate how these resonances can be controlled by changing the separation of the structures. Furthermore, we investigate the effect of changing the structure sizes and show that bound states in the continuum can be achieved when the structure sizes are equal.
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