Abstract
We present the design and fabrication of a novel regularly arrayed plasmonic nanolasers. This main microstructure of the device is composed of a hexagonal array of n-ZnO/p-GaN nanoheterojunctions fabricated using the micro-fabrication method. Furthermore, the optically pumped lasing in the device is demonstrated. The spectroscopy characterization results of the device show that the surface plasmon excited around the NWs surface can be used to stimulate and strongly compress the optical modes in the NW cavity. This electromagnetic confinement effect is employed to optimize the beam quality and increase the light intensity compared to the laser fabricated with the bare NWs array. The impact of the array arrangement on the coherent combining efficiency of the arrayed nanolasers has been numerically studied. The results show that the arrayed hexagonal nanolasers could improve the combining efficiency compared to the nanolaser with the randomly positioned array. Qualitatively, these calculated results agree well with the experimental results of the laser beam spot mapping. This demonstrates the scope for using such architectures to improve the combination efficiency of the arrayed nanolasers.
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The authors would like to thank Prof. Z. H. Chen for assistance in optical pumping measurements and Prof. X. L. Liang for the kind help on EBL micro-fabrication. This work was supported partially by the International S&T Cooperation Program of China (No. 2014DFH10200), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 11274058, and 11275045), and the National Key Projects for Basic Researches of China (no. 2013CBA01702).
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Huang, X., Zhang, P., Lin, E. et al. Fabrication and optically pumped lasing of plasmonic nanolaser with regular ZnO/GaN nanoheterojunction array. Appl. Phys. A 123, 605 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-017-1211-z
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