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Inorganic perovskite lasers are of particular interest, with much recent work focusing on Fabry-Pérot cavity-forming nanowires. We demonstrate the direct observation of lasing from transverse electromagnetic (TEM) modes with a long coherence time ∼ 9.5 ps in coupled CsPbBr3 quantum dots, which dispense with an external cavity resonator and show how the wavelength of the modes can be controlled via two independent tuning-mechanisms. Controlling the pump power allowed us to fine-tune the TEM mode structure to the emission wavelength, thus providing a degree of control over the properties of the lasing signal. The temperature-tuning provided an additional degree of control over the wavelength of the lasing peak, importantly, maintained a constant full width at half maximum (FWHM) over the entire tuning range without mode-hopping.
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This work was supported by Basic Science Research Program and National Honor Scientist Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) (Nos. 2010-0020414 and 2018R1D1A1B07043676). T. F. acknowledges support from the Centre for Quantum Technologies, National University of Singapore.
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Park, Y., Ying, G., Jana, A. et al. Coarse and fine-tuning of lasing transverse electromagnetic modes in coupled all-inorganic perovskite quantum dots. Nano Res. 14, 108–113 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-020-3051-y
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