Near-IR subwavelength microdisk lasers

Q. Song; H. Cao; S. T. Ho; G. S. Solomon

doi:10.1063/1.3081106

Near-IR subwavelength microdisk lasers

Q. Song^*, H. Cao, S. T. Ho, G. S. Solomon

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We report single-mode lasing in subwavelength GaAs disks under optical pumping. The disks are fabricated by standard photolithography and two steps of wet chemical etching. The simple fabrication method can produce submicron disks with good circularity, smooth boundary, and vertical sidewalls. The smallest lasing disks have a diameter of 627 nm and thickness of 265 nm. The ratio of the disk diameter to the vacuum lasing wavelength is about 0.7. Our numerical simulations confirm that the lasing modes are whispering-gallery modes with the azimuthal number as small as 4 and a modal volume of 0.97 (λ/n) 3.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	061109
Journal	Applied Physics Letters
Volume	94
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3081106
State	Published - 2009

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This work is supported partly by NIST under the Grant No. 70NANB6H6162 and by NSF under the Grant No. ECCS-0823345.

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