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Cesium lead halide perovskite triangular nanorods as high-gain medium and effective cavities for multiphoton-pumped lasing

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High-performance multiphoton-pumped lasers based on cesium lead halide perovskite nanostructures are promising for nonlinear optics and practical frequency upconversion devices in integrated photonics. However, the performance of such lasers is highly dependent on the quality of the material and cavity, which makes their fabrication challenging. Herein, we demonstrate that cesium lead halide perovskite triangular nanorods fabricated via vapor methods can serve as gain media and effective cavities for multiphoton-pumped lasers. We observed blue-shifts of the lasing modes in the excitation fluence-dependent lasing spectra at increased excitation powers, which fits well with the dynamics of Burstein–Moss shifts caused by the band filling effect. Moreover, efficient multiphoton lasing in CsPbBr3 nanorods can be realized in a wide excitation wavelength range (700–1,400 nm). The dynamics of multiphoton lasing were investigated by time-resolved photoluminescence spectroscopy, which indicated that an electron–hole plasma is responsible for the multiphoton-pumped lasing. This work could lead to new opportunities and applications for cesium lead halide perovskite nanostructures in frequency upconversion lasing devices and optical interconnect systems.

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All authors are grateful to the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 51525202, 61574054, 61505051 and 61474040), the Hunan province science and technology plan (Nos. 2014FJ2001 and 2014TT1004), the Aid program for Science and Technology Innovative Research Team in Higher Educational Institutions of Hunan Province, and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities.

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    Xiaoxia Wang, Hong Zhou, Shuangping Yuan, Weihao Zheng, Ying Jiang, Xiujuan Zhuang, Hongjun Liu, Qinglin Zhang, Xiaoli Zhu, Xiao Wang & Anlian Pan

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Wang, X., Zhou, H., Yuan, S. et al. Cesium lead halide perovskite triangular nanorods as high-gain medium and effective cavities for multiphoton-pumped lasing. Nano Res. 10, 3385–3395 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-017-1551-1

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