Lasing from Narrow Bandwidth Light-Emitting One-Dimensional Nanoporous Photonic Crystals

Satyathiran Gunenthiran; Juan Wang; Wanxia Zhao; Cheryl Suwen Law; Siew Yee Lim; Jamie A. McInnes; Heike Ebendorff-Heidepriem; Andrew D. Abell; Zeyad T. Alwahabi; Abel Santos

doi:10.1021/acsphotonics.1c01689

Lasing from Narrow Bandwidth Light-Emitting One-Dimensional Nanoporous Photonic Crystals

Satyathiran Gunenthiran, Juan Wang, Wanxia Zhao, Cheryl Suwen Law, Siew Yee Lim, Jamie A. McInnes, Heike Ebendorff-Heidepriem, Andrew D. Abell, Zeyad T. Alwahabi, Abel Santos^*

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Abstract

Nanoporous anodic alumina (NAA) is an emerging platform material for photonics and light-based applications. However, demonstrations of narrow bandwidth lasing emissions from this optical material remain limited. Here, we demonstrate that narrow bandwidth NAA-based gradient-index filters (NAA-GIFs) can be optically engineered to achieve high-quality visible lasing. NAA-GIFs fabricated by a modified sinusoidal pulse anodization approach feature a well-resolved, intense, high-quality photonic stopband (PSB). The inner surface of NAA-GIFs is functionalized with rhodamine B (RhoB) fluorophore molecules through micellar solubilization of sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) surfactant. Systematic variation of the ratio of SDS and RhoB enables the precise engineering of the light-emitting functional layer to maximize light-driven lasing associated with the slow photon effect at the red edge of NAA-GIFs' PSB. It is found that the optimal surfactant-To-fluorophore ratio, namely, 20 mM SDS to 0.81 mM RhoB, results in a strong, polarized lasing at â 612 nm. This lasing was characterized by a remarkably high-quality-gain product of â 536, a Purcell factor of 2.2, a lasing threshold of â 0.15 mJ per pulse, and a high-quality polarization ratio of â 0.7. Our results benefit the advancement of the NAA-based lasing technology for a variety of photonic disciplines such as sensing, tweezing, light harvesting, and photodetection.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1226-1239
Number of pages	14
Journal	ACS PHOTONICS
Volume	9
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/acsphotonics.1c01689
State	Published - Apr 20 2022

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Funding Information:
The authors thank the support provided by the Australian Research Council through the grant DP200102614, the Department of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources (DISER) from the Australian Government through the grant AIRXIIICO000063, the School of Chemical Engineering and Advanced Materials, The University of Adelaide, the Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing (IPAS), and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Nanoscale BioPhotonics (CNBP). This work was performed, in part, at the OptoFab node of the Australian National Fabrication Facility utilizing Commonwealth and South Australia State Government funding.

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Keywords

fluorophore functionalization
laser emission
nanoporous photonic crystals
photonic engineering

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Biotechnology
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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