High Circular Polarized Nanolaser with Chiral Gammadion Metal Cavity.
Journal
Scientific reports
ISSN: 2045-2322
Titre abrégé: Sci Rep
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101563288
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
12 May 2020
12 May 2020
Historique:
received:
16
09
2019
accepted:
16
12
2019
entrez:
14
5
2020
pubmed:
14
5
2020
medline:
14
5
2020
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
We demonstrate a circularly polarized laser with the metal-gallium-nitride gammadion nanocavities. The ultraviolet lasing signal was observed with the high circular dichroism at room temperature under pulsed optical pump conditions. Without external magnetism which breaks the time-reversal symmetry to favor optical transitions of a chosen handedness, the coherent outputs of these chiral nanolasers show a dissymmetry factor as high as 1.1. The small footprint of these lasers are advantageous for applications related to circularly polarized photons in future integrated systems, in contrast to the bulky setup of linearly-polarized lasers and quarter-wave plates.
Identifiants
pubmed: 32398835
doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-64836-1
pii: 10.1038/s41598-020-64836-1
pmc: PMC7217972
doi:
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Journal Article
Langues
eng
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