Anapole nanolasers for mode-locking and ultrafast pulse generation
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ArticleKAUST Department
Applied Mathematics and Computational Science ProgramComputer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering (CEMSE) Division
Electrical Engineering Program
PRIMALIGHT Research Group
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OSR-2016-CRG5-2995Date
2017-05-31Online Publication Date
2017-05-31Print Publication Date
2017-08Permanent link to this record
http://hdl.handle.net/10754/624031
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Nanophotonics is a rapidly developing field of research with many suggestions for a design of nanoantennas, sensors and miniature metadevices. Despite many proposals for passive nanophotonic devices, the efficient coupling of light to nanoscale optical structures remains a major challenge. In this article, we propose a nanoscale laser based on a tightly confined anapole mode. By harnessing the non-radiating nature of the anapole state, we show how to engineer nanolasers based on InGaAs nanodisks as on-chip sources with unique optical properties. Leveraging on the near-field character of anapole modes, we demonstrate a spontaneously polarized nanolaser able to couple light into waveguide channels with four orders of magnitude intensity than classical nanolasers, as well as the generation of ultrafast (of 100 fs) pulses via spontaneous mode locking of several anapoles. Anapole nanolasers offer an attractive platform for monolithically integrated, silicon photonics sources for advanced and efficient nanoscale circuitry.Citation
Totero Gongora JS, Miroshnichenko AE, Kivshar YS, Fratalocchi A (2017) Anapole nanolasers for mode-locking and ultrafast pulse generation. Nature Communications 8: 15535. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15535.Sponsors
A.F. acknowledges funding support from KAUST (Award No. OSR-2016-CRG5-2995). For the computer time, we have used the resources of the KAUST Supercomputing Laboratory and the Redragon cluster of the PRIMALIGHT group.Publisher
Springer NatureJournal
Nature CommunicationsPubMed ID
28561017Additional Links
https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms15535ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1038/ncomms15535
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