Gain and lasing from CdSe/CdS nanoplatelet stripe waveguides

Autor: Martin Belitsch, Dmitry N. Dirin, Maksym V. Kovalenko, Kevin Pichler, Stefan Rotter, Ahmed Ghalgaoui, Harald Ditlbacher, Andreas Hohenau, Joachim R. Krenn
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Micro and Nano Engineering, Vol 17, Iss , Pp 100167- (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2590-0072
DOI: 10.1016/j.mne.2022.100167
Popis: ABSTRACT: Colloidal semiconducting nanocrystals are efficient, stable and spectrally tunable emitters, but achievable optical gain is often limited by fast nonradiative processes. These processes are strongly suppressed in slab-shaped nanocrystals (nanoplatelets), due to relaxed exciton Coulomb interaction. Here, we show that CdSe/CdS nanoplatelets can be engineered into (sub)microscopic stripe waveguides that achieve lasing without further components for feedback, i.e., just relying on the stripe end reflection. We find a remarkably high gain factor for the CdSe/CdS nanoplatelets of 1630cm−1. In addition, by comparison with numerical simulations we assign a distinct emission peak broadening above laser threshold to emission pulse shortening. Our results illustrate the feasibility of geometrically simple monolithic microscale nanoplatelet lasers as an attractive option for a variety of photonic applications.
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