Unidirectional High Intensity Narrow-Linewidth Lasing from a Planar Random Microcavity Laser

Qinghai Song, Liying Liu, Shumin Xiao, Xinchuan Zhou, Wencheng Wang, and Lei Xu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 033902 – Published 23 January 2006

Abstract

Lasing was achieved in a new type of random laser: the planar random microcavity laser. The laser consists of a planar microcavity with a random gain layer. Optical confinement by the two-dimensional random cavity and the one-dimensional planar microcavity drastically reduces the number of resonant modes. As a result, the laser output is highly directional (the divergence angle is 1.68°) with an extremely narrow-linewidth and ultralow threshold. All these phenomena are explained in terms of the coupling of random cavity modes and planar microcavity modes. The results demonstrate an important step towards applications of random lasers.

Received 21 March 2005

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.033902

Authors & Affiliations

Qinghai Song, Liying Liu, Shumin Xiao, Xinchuan Zhou, Wencheng Wang, and Lei Xu^*

State Key Lab for Advanced Photonic Materials and Devices, Department of Optical Science and Engineering, School of Information Science and Engineering, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China

^*To whom all correspondence should be addressed. Electronic address: leixu@fudan.ac.cn

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Vol. 96, Iss. 3 — 27 January 2006

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