Semiconductor Nanolasers (A Tutorial)

Ning, Cun‐Zheng; Ding, Kang; Fan, Fan; Liu, Z. C.; Türkdoğan, Sunay; Shelhammer, David; Yin, Leijun; Nicholson, Peter; Ning, Hao

doi:10.1109/sum.2014.19

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“…One additional advantage of nanowire lasers is the combined material and bandgap flexibility, 2 which allows realization of lasers at wavelengths that are difficult to achieve using either the microdisk approach or the PC approach. Many recent review articles 3 , 4 , 48 – 53 are available on nanowires and the nanowire-based lasers.…”

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“…Such lack of ability to produce the requisite bandgaps severely impedes technological progress in many applications, including displays, solid-state lighting, solar cells, detectors, and widely tunable lasers. Nanoscale semiconductors, such as nanowires, 2 – 4 perovskite platelets, 5 and quantum dots, offer many potential benefits and have enabled many exciting developments, such as widely tunable emission in the entire visible spectrum, or white lasers from a single substrate, or a single monolithic semiconductor. Such nanomaterials must be fully and systematically explored to develop more mature devices.…”

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Semiconductor nanolasers and the size-energy-efficiency challenge: a review

2019

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Semiconductor lasers, an important subfield of semiconductor photonics, have fundamentally changed many aspects of our lives and enabled many technologies since their creation in the 1960s. As in other semiconductor-based fields, such as microelectronics, miniaturization has been a constant theme, with nanolasers being an important frontier of research over the last decade. We review the progress, existing issues, and future prospects of nanolasers, especially in relation to their potential application in chip-scale optical interconnects. One of the important challenges in this application is minimizing the size and energy consumption of nanolasers. We begin with the application background of this challenge and then compare basic features of various semiconductor lasers. We present existing issues with nanolasers and discuss potential solutions to meet the size and energy-efficiency challenge. Our discussions cover a broad range of miniaturized lasers, including plasmonic nanolasers and lasers with two-dimensional monolayer gain materials, with focus on near-infrared wavelengths.

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Semiconductor nanolasers and the size-energy-efficiency challenge: a review

2019

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“…However, the size of this kind of pure dielectric cavity laser in the horizontal direction is still very large. [34] Until 2007, [35,36] metallic-semiconductor cavity was proposed for a plasmonic nanolaser of subwavelength scale in three dimensions, but the ohmic loss caused by the addition of metals had resulted in higher thresholds. [37,38] After 2009, [39] the device of spaser (surface plasmon amplification by stimulated emission of radiation) with a low threshold had made the laser smaller than the skin depth, and scaled down the laser size to subwavelength level.…”

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Nanolasers Based on 2D Materials

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et al. 2020

Laser & Photonics Reviews

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Nanolasers, with small footprint and ultralow threshold, are promising for applications in data communication, on-chip optical computing, and optical interconnects. In addition to the microcavity design, the choice of gain material is another critical factor determining the optical performance of nanolasers. 2D materials are widely studied and applied in nanoscale optoelectronic devices due to their exceptional electrical, chemical, thermal, and optical properties caused by the unique layered structures. As emerging materials with unique optical properties, 2D materials are selected as effective gain materials for designing of nanolasers. In this review, the recent advances in nanolasers based on 2D materials are comprehensively addressed.

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Semiconductor nanowire lasers

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The discovery and continued development of the laser has revolutionized both science and industry, enabling a range of scientific advances. The advent of miniaturized, semiconductor lasers has made this technology ubiquitous and an integral part of everyday life. Exciting research continues with a new focus on nanowire lasers, as they have the potential to revolutionize the field of optoelectronics. Here, we review the latest advancements in nanowire laser development and offer our perspective on future improvements and trends. We discuss fundamental material considerations, which include the latest, most effective materials for nanowire lasers. A discussion of novel cavity designs and amplifications methods is followed by some of the latest work on surface plasmon polariton nanowire lasers. Finally, exciting new reports of electrically pumped nanowire lasers with the potential for integrated optoelectronic applications are described.

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Semiconductor Nanolasers (A Tutorial)

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Semiconductor nanolasers and the size-energy-efficiency challenge: a review

Semiconductor nanolasers and the size-energy-efficiency challenge: a review

Nanolasers Based on 2D Materials

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