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Single-mode tunable laser emission in the single-exciton regime from colloidal nanocrystals

Single-mode tunable laser emission in the single-exciton regime from colloidal nanocrystals
Single-mode tunable laser emission in the single-exciton regime from colloidal nanocrystals
Whispering-gallery-mode resonators have been extensively used in conjunction with different materials for the development of a variety of photonic devices. Among the latter, hybrid structures, consisting of dielectric microspheres and colloidal core/shell semiconductor nanocrystals as gain media, have attracted interest for the development of microlasers and studies of cavity quantum electrodynamic effects. Here we demonstrate single-exciton, single-mode, spectrally tuned lasing from ensembles of optical antenna-designed, colloidal core/shell CdSe/CdS quantum rods deposited on silica microspheres. We obtain single-exciton emission by capitalizing on the band structure of the specific core/shell architecture that strongly localizes holes in the core, and the two-dimensional quantum confinement of electrons across the elongated shell. This creates a type-II conduction band alignment driven by coulombic repulsion that eliminates non-radiative multi-exciton Auger recombination processes, thereby inducing a large exciton–bi-exciton energy shift. Their ultra-low thresholds and single-mode, single-exciton emission make these hybrid lasers appealing for various applications, including quantum information processing.
physical sciences, nanotechnology, optical physics
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Ding, Ming
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Wang, Pengfei
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Ding, Ming
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Manna, Liberato
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Grivas, Christos, Li, Chunyong, Andreakou, Peristera, Wang, Pengfei, Ding, Ming, Brambilla, Gilberto, Manna, Liberato and Lagoudakis, Pavlos (2013) Single-mode tunable laser emission in the single-exciton regime from colloidal nanocrystals. Nature Communications, 4 (2376), 1-9. (doi:10.1038/ncomms3376).

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Whispering-gallery-mode resonators have been extensively used in conjunction with different materials for the development of a variety of photonic devices. Among the latter, hybrid structures, consisting of dielectric microspheres and colloidal core/shell semiconductor nanocrystals as gain media, have attracted interest for the development of microlasers and studies of cavity quantum electrodynamic effects. Here we demonstrate single-exciton, single-mode, spectrally tuned lasing from ensembles of optical antenna-designed, colloidal core/shell CdSe/CdS quantum rods deposited on silica microspheres. We obtain single-exciton emission by capitalizing on the band structure of the specific core/shell architecture that strongly localizes holes in the core, and the two-dimensional quantum confinement of electrons across the elongated shell. This creates a type-II conduction band alignment driven by coulombic repulsion that eliminates non-radiative multi-exciton Auger recombination processes, thereby inducing a large exciton–bi-exciton energy shift. Their ultra-low thresholds and single-mode, single-exciton emission make these hybrid lasers appealing for various applications, including quantum information processing.

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Published date: 23 August 2013
Keywords: physical sciences, nanotechnology, optical physics
Organisations: Optoelectronics Research Centre, Quantum, Light & Matter Group

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Local EPrints ID: 356365
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/356365
PURE UUID: 2791c66b-9d38-46c3-aa32-9148d3b8c798
ORCID for Gilberto Brambilla: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-5730-0499
ORCID for Pavlos Lagoudakis: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-3557-5299

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Date deposited: 12 Sep 2013 17:00
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 03:09

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Author: Christos Grivas
Author: Chunyong Li
Author: Peristera Andreakou
Author: Pengfei Wang
Author: Ming Ding
Author: Liberato Manna
Author: Pavlos Lagoudakis ORCID iD

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