Tunable single-mode photonic lasing from zirconia inverse opal photonic crystals

Nishijima, Yoshiaki; Ueno, Kosei; Juodkazis, Saulius; Mizeikis, Vygantas; Misawa, Hiroaki; Maeda, Michiharu; Minaki, Masashi

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“…The Förster energy transfer in a higher refractive index contrast 3D photonic structures with photonic stop gap could further enhance the energy transfer when the donor emission is forbidden by the stop gap and a single-mode lasing is realized (Nishijima et al, 2008). The spectral positions of the lasing modes were stable at the all range of employed laser pumping powers.…”

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“…This type of lasing is not defined by the photonic band gap because of the low refractive index contrast between silica (1.46) and ethylene glycol (1.42) (Kitamura et al, 2007;Nishijima, 2009;Nishijima et al, 2009a). Rather, it is determined by the distributed feedback (DFB) in the dye as demonstrated recently (Nishijima et al, 2008). The lasing threshold and the onset of lasing were determined from the power dependence of the lasing spectrum shown in Figure 7B.…”

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“…Photonic crystals (PhCs) (John, 1987;Yablonovitch, 1987) fabricated by top-down or bottom-up methods are being used for a growing number of applications, such as spontaneous emission control (Li et al, 2007), micro lasing (Matsubara et al, 2008;Nishijima et al, 2008), and refractive index sensing (Nishijima et al, 2007;Kita et al, 2008;Wu et al, 2008). PhCs can also be combined with plasmonics to yield new methods for controlling photo-excited processes, which for example, can result in an enhancement of fluorescence (Tawa et al, 2008).…”

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Optical Characterization and Lasing in Three-Dimensional Opal-Structures

Nishijima

Juodkazis

2015

Front. Mater.

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The lasing properties of dye-permeated opal pyramidal structures are compared with the lasing properties of opal films. The opal-structures studied were made by sedimentation of microspheres and by sol-gel inversion of the direct-opals. Forced-sedimentation by centrifugation inside wet-etched pyramidal pits on silicon surfaces was used to improve the structural quality of the direct-opal structures. Single crystalline pyramids with the base length of~100 µm were formed by centrifuged sedimentation. The lasing of dyes in the well-ordered crystalline and poly-crystalline structures showed a distinct multi-modal spectrum. Gain via a distributed feedback was responsible for the lasing since the photonic band gap was negligible in a low refractive index contrast medium; the indices of silica and ethylene glycol are 1.46 and 1.42, respectively. A disordered lasing spectrum was observed from opal films with structural defects and multi-domain regions. The three-dimensional structural quality of the structures was assessed by in situ optical diffraction and confocal fluorescence. A correlation between the lasing spectrum and the three-dimensional structural quality was established. Lasing threshold of a sulforhodamine dye in a silica opal was controlled via Förster mechanism by addition of a donor rhodamine 6G dye. The lasing spectrum had a well-ordered modal structure, which was spectrally stable at different excitation powers. The sharp lasing threshold characterized by a spontaneous emission coupling ratio, β ≃ 10 −2 , was obtained.

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Optical Characterization and Lasing in Three-Dimensional Opal-Structures

Nishijima

Juodkazis

2015

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“…Therefore, transition metal oxides are also ideal alternative materials to prepare inverse opal 3DPCs. Many research groups including ours reported the fabrication of zirconia or yttria-stabilized zirconia (YSZ) with inverse opal structures that were obtained by filling a template of colloidal crystals with a sol or solution of zirconia or YSZ [16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26]. However, no noticeable reflection peak was observed in these reports.…”

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Preparation of Three-Dimensional Photonic Crystals of Zirconia by Electrodeposition in a Colloidal Crystals Template

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Three-dimensional photonic crystals of zirconia were prepared by electrodeposition in a colloidal crystals template following calcination at 500˝C. Scanning electron microscopy, thermogravimetric analysis, X-ray diffraction, and reflectance spectroscopy were employed to characterize the photonic crystals of zirconia. It was found that hydrated zirconium ions could penetrate the colloidal crystals template and reach the substrate easily by electrodeposition, which resulted in stronger bonding between the substrate and the as-deposited membrane. Moreover, the electrodeposited membrane had low water content, leading to a low amount of shrinkage during calcination. Both these properties could suppress detachment from the substrate upon removal of the colloidal crystals template. Therefore, the three-dimensional photonic crystals of zirconia synthesized in this study exhibited very good preservation of the ordered structures of the colloidal crystals template with a high density. A peak of reflection higher than 70% was formed in the reflectance spectrum because of the strong diffraction of the ordered structures.

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“…Lasing from photonic crystals has been extensively studied by infiltrating the solutions containing dye molecules or semiconductors into them [9][10][11][12][13]. To date, numerous reports have confirmed optical modifications using two-dimensional (2D) and 3D photonic crystals [3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13].…”

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Engineering a light-emitting planar defect within three-dimensional photonic crystals

Liu

Chen²,

Ye³

2009

Science and Technology of Advanced Materials

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Sandwich structures, constructed from a planar defect of rhodamine-B (RhB)-doped titania (TiO 2 ) and two photonic crystals, were synthesized via the self-assembly method combined with spin-coating. The modification of the spontaneous emission of RhB molecules in such structures was investigated experimentally. The spontaneous emission of RhB-doped TiO 2 film with photonic crystals was reduced by a factor of 5.5 over a large bandwidth of 13% of the first-order Bragg diffraction frequency when compared with that of RhB-doped TiO 2 film without photonic crystals. The angular dependence of the modification and the photoluminescence lifetime of RhB molecules demonstrate that the strong and wide suppression of the spontaneous emission of the RhB molecules is due to the presence of the photonic band gap.

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Tunable single-mode photonic lasing from zirconia inverse opal photonic crystals

Cited by 29 publications

References 27 publications

Optical Characterization and Lasing in Three-Dimensional Opal-Structures

Optical Characterization and Lasing in Three-Dimensional Opal-Structures

Preparation of Three-Dimensional Photonic Crystals of Zirconia by Electrodeposition in a Colloidal Crystals Template

Engineering a light-emitting planar defect within three-dimensional photonic crystals

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