Inverse Design of Whispering-Gallery Nanolasers with Tailored Beam Shape and Polarization

[EN] Control over the shape and polarization of the beam emitted by a laser source is important in applications such as optical communications, optical manipulation and high-resolution optical imaging. In this paper, we present the inverse design of monolithic whispering-gallery nanolasers which emi...

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Autores: Rodriguez-Díez, Iago|||0000-0001-8336-7438, Krysa, Andrey, Luxmoore, Isaac J.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)
Repositorio:RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:riunet.upv.es:10251/204500
Acceso en línea:https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/204500
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Inverse design
Topology optimization
Nanolasers
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Sumario:[EN] Control over the shape and polarization of the beam emitted by a laser source is important in applications such as optical communications, optical manipulation and high-resolution optical imaging. In this paper, we present the inverse design of monolithic whispering-gallery nanolasers which emit along their axial direction with a tailored laser beam shape and polarization. We design and experimentally verify three types of submicron cavities, each one emitting into a different laser radiation mode: an azimuthally polarized doughnut beam, a radially polarized doughnut beam and a linearly polarized Gaussian-like beam. The measured output laser beams yield a field overlap with respect to the target mode of 92%, 96%, and 85% for the azimuthal, radial, and linearly polarized cases, respectively, thereby demonstrating the generality of the method in the design of ultracompact lasers with tailored beams.