Few-emitter lasing in single ultra-small nanocavities

Abstract: Lasers are ubiquitous for information storage, processing, communications, sensing, biological research and medical applications. To decrease their energy and materials usage, a key quest is to miniaturise lasers down to nanocavities. Obtaining the smallest mode volumes demands plasmonic nanocavities, but for these, gain comes from only a single or few emitters. Until now, lasing in such devices was unobtainable due to low gain and high cavity losses. Here, we demonstrate a form of ‘few emitter lasing’ in a plasmonic nanocavity approaching the single-molecule emitter regime. The few-emitter lasing transition significantly broadens, and depends on the number of molecules and their individual locations. We show this non-standard few-emitter lasing can be understood by developing a theoretical approach extending previous weak-coupling theories. Our work paves the way for developing nanolaser applications as well as fundamental studies at the limit of few emitters.

Standort
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
Umfang
Online-Ressource
Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Few-emitter lasing in single ultra-small nanocavities ; volume:13 ; number:14 ; year:2024 ; pages:2679-2686 ; extent:8
Nanophotonics ; 13, Heft 14 (2024), 2679-2686 (gesamt 8)

Urheber
Ojambati, Oluwafemi S.
Arnardóttir, Kristín B.
Lovett, Brendon W.
Keeling, Jonathan
Baumberg, Jeremy J.

DOI
10.1515/nanoph-2023-0706
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-2406041538147.344092778905
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14.08.2025, 10:44 MESZ

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Beteiligte

  • Ojambati, Oluwafemi S.
  • Arnardóttir, Kristín B.
  • Lovett, Brendon W.
  • Keeling, Jonathan
  • Baumberg, Jeremy J.

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