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1.IntroductionSemiconductor one-dimensional (1-D) nanostructures have emerged as a key component for a wide range of electronic and optoelectronic applications since their first demonstration in 1964.1,2 Currently, a great deal of attention has been paid to semiconductor nanowires (NWs) due to their unique electronic and optical properties arising from the anisotropic geometry, the large surface-to-volume ratios, and the unique carrier and photon confinement in two dimensions. One of the most attractive advantages of NWs is that they can be grown either with or without an epitaxial connection to a substrate, which relieves us from lattice and thermal expansion coefficients mismatch problems in these structures.3–5 This results in, in principle, materials that are free from strain, dislocations, and other structural defects. Therefore, NWs hold great promise in a number of applications including electronics,6,7 photovoltaics,8 solid-state lighting,9 and biosensing.10 Furthermore, in order to increase the applicability of NWs as light sources, recent investigations have been focused on making semiconductor lasers utilizing NWs compatible with very large scale integration (VLSI) circuits. In other words, implementing such digital photonic VLSI systems requires lasers at nanoscale dimensions. Apart from that, lasers with a reduced dimensionality will also allow for developing efficient, low-threshold, and compact light sources for many novel applications in high-speed communications, information processing, and optical interconnects. Thus, there is an urgent need to reduce the size of semiconductor lasers. As a consequence, size reduction of lasers has become one of the most interesting and challenging areas in modern optoelectronics. This is not only for using them as light sources in such applications, but also for understanding the basic laser concepts and fundamental light-matter interactions at the nanoscale. The smallest application-suited lasers available commercially today are vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs).11 Compared with VCSELs, NW lasers can exhibit much smaller dimensions with diameters of or less, and therefore, they promise much lower power consumption and higher integration density. It should be noticed that in spite of their small cylindrical dimensions, their lengths can vary from a few hundred nanometers to several or tens of micrometers. Also, NWs as gain regions are expected to exhibit superior performance due to their strong carrier confinement and enhanced electronic density of states. In addition, nearly defect-free NWs can be grown directly on silicon (Si) substrates;12–17 thereby allowing for the monolithic integration of efficient light emitters with other electronic and photonic components on a Si platform for the emerging chip-level optical communications. NW lasers utilizing II–VI compounds, e.g., ZnO18–24 and CdS,25–27 III–V compounds, e.g., GaAs and GaSb,28,29 and their ternary alloys, e.g., CdSSe and InGaAs,30,31 have been demonstrated. Recently, III-nitride NW-based lasers32–48 have attracted a great deal of interest. The direct bandgap III-nitrides (AlN, GaN, and InN) and their ternary and quaternary alloys exhibit many unique properties including relatively large oscillator strength,49,50 large exciton binding energy,51 low surface state densities,52 large band offset, and robust spin coherence.53 In particular, owing to the large exciton binding energy ( at room temperature), GaN materials can have excitonic effects up to room temperature, which could be exploited to realize polariton lasers.54 More importantly, III-nitride NW lasers can potentially cover a broad spectral range from the deep UV (6.2 eV for AlN) to the near-infrared (0.7 eV for InN) regime, as illustrated in Fig. 1. Therefore, III-nitride NW lasers grown on Si substrate will also enable many potential applications in optical information processing and quantum computing. Given the rapid developments in III-nitride NW lasers, there is clearly an urgent need for a comprehensive review of the recent progress and research activities. Compared with previously published review papers on NW lasers,55–61 this review paper will provide a detailed description of III-nitride NW lasers. The recent progresses and challenges for such nanoscale lasers are first briefly summarized in Secs. 2 and 3, respectively. The operating principles of NW lasers are then described in Sec. 4. Several growth techniques of NWs are briefly mentioned in Sec. 5. This will be followed by discussions on the recent demonstrations of various III-nitride NW lasers in Sec. 6. Finally, a summary on the future prospects of III-nitride NW lasers is presented in Sec. 7. 2.Overview of the Recent Progress of III-Nitride Nanowire LasersNWs synthesized from III-nitride semiconductors have recently shown tremendous promise for different types of nanophotonic devices including lasers, light-emitting diodes (LEDs),62–66 and photodetectors.67–70 As solid-state light sources, III-nitride NW-based devices provide many potential advantages when compared with their planar counterparts. Conventional planar III-nitride lasers grown on sapphire and SiC substrates exhibit very large dislocation densities.71–73 Moreover, the performance of such laser diodes has been severely limited by the large lattice mismatch between InGaN and GaN and the associated strain-induced polarization fields.74,75 This leads to extremely large threshold current densities of or larger for devices emitting in the wavelength () range beyond .76–80 In contrast, NW-based devices can exhibit drastically reduced dislocation densities and polarization fields and can provide a greater degree of flexibility for sophisticated device engineering.66,81 Therefore, III-nitride NW lasers are expected to exhibit much reduced threshold current densities and lower power consumption. Moreover, such nanoscale lasers with a reduced cavity volume can potentially operate at much higher modulation speed.82 In addition to these significant advantages, NW-based lasers can promise droop-free operation.83 With the use of III-nitride NW structures, nanolasers with emission wavelengths ranging from the deep UV to the near-infrared have already been demonstrated. Many different types of micro- and nanocavities have been studied which include Fabry-Pérot32–34,36,38,46–48 nanoplasmonics,43,45 photonic-crystals,40 microstadium,37 and ring cavities.35 GaN-based NW polariton laser also has been demonstrated.42 Stimulated emission has been reported utilizing two-dimensional (2-D) distributed feedback (DFB) concept in an InGaN nanocolumn array.39,41 In addition, random lasing action from GaN quasicrystal nanorod arrays44 has been observed. Recently, stable single-mode lasing operation from a single46,48 or a pair47 of coupled GaN NWs was demonstrated. Table 1 provides a brief summary of III-nitride nanolasers and their corresponding performance parameters demonstrated by different research teams in the world. These NW laser demonstrations generally involve the use of optical pumping, and the achievement of electrically injected III-nitride NW lasers has remained elusive. Table 1A brief summary of experimental realizations of III-nitride NW lasers listed in chronological order.
It may be noticed that the lasing thresholds of these lasers vary by several orders of magnitude, which is a direct consequence of differing NW dimensions, quality of the NWs, characteristics of NW cavities, and coupling with the substrate. 3.Challenges of III-Nitride Nanowire LasersFor practical applications, it is highly desired to realize electrically injected, ultralow-threshold, and continuous-wave (CW) III-nitride NW lasers that can be operated at room temperature. Some of the major obstacles and difficulties for realizing such devices are briefly described below:
4.Operating Principle of Nanowire LasersThe realization of NW lasers opens up a new and plausible route for achieving simultaneous carrier and photon confinements in 1-D nanoscale cavities. Compared with quantum-well structures, a better carrier confinement in 1-D structures allows carriers to move freely only along the wire axial direction. Optical confinement in miniature optical cavities can lead to a significant enhancement of the spontaneous emission rate.97 Note that spontaneous emission is no longer an intrinsic material property, but rather it is directly proportional to the density of electromagnetic modes with which a spontaneously emitted photon can couple. This cavity quantum electrodynamics phenomenon can provide a mechanism to realize low-threshold semiconductor lasers from NW-based cavities. A number of different optical resonators ranging from Fabry-Pérot,32–34,36,38,46,47 plasmonics,43,45 microstadiums,37 photonics crystals,40 2-D-DFB,39,41 ring,35 and random cavities have been utilized for the realization of III-nitride nanolasers. Each resonator has its own unique properties based on which lasing occurs in the device. Regardless of the types of the resonator, generally speaking, all nanolasers should have a gain medium for compensating all types of cavity losses, as well as a feedback mechanism to provide sustained laser oscillation. This section will mainly focus on the fundamental operating principles of nanolasers using the simplest Fabry-Pérot (FP) cavity. This will be followed by discussions on the unique features of NW lasers with respect to standard semiconductor lasers. And last, but not least, a short description about the basic operation of plasmonic NW lasers will be provided. Perhaps the smallest FP-type optical cavity that can effectively provide positive feedback of stimulated emission belongs to single-crystalline semiconductor NWs having a length on the order of light wavelength. Figure 2(a) shows a possible geometry of single-NW lasers representing FP nanocavity that can be fabricated from semiconductor 1-D nanostructures. Two crystalline NW facet ends acting as reflecting mirrors are used in such nanocavities. As the NW cavity is identical to a gain medium terminated by two reflectors, the threshold conditions for the NW can then be described by the balance between the round-trip gain and loss inside the cavity. Optical field propagating along the longitudinal direction is amplified and absorbed inside the NWs. Furthermore, part of the light is reflected back into the cavity from the facets of the NW, and the remaining light emits from the facets to the surrounding medium, as illustrated in Fig. 2(b). Hence, the threshold condition for laser oscillation is that the round-trip gain inside the NW cavity equals the round-trip losses. where is the confinement factor, is the threshold gain, is the waveguide loss, is the mirror loss, is the length of the NW, and and are the intensity reflectivities of the two end facets of the NW. It should be noted that the gain length in such nanoscale lasers is not necessarily equal to the length of an NW even if it is under optical pumping, since the whole NW is not generally pumped. The similar condition also holds for electrically pumped structures. Therefore, the threshold condition for NW lasers follows where is the gain length within the NW.In contrast to conventional edge-emitting lasers, the dominant loss mechanism is considered to be the mirror loss in NW lasers, i.e., transmission at end facets, due to the much smaller cavity length and reflection coefficient. In addition, significant scattering losses appear in such nanoscale devices when the diameter of the NW is comparable with or smaller than the wavelength of light in the semiconductor. This results in a considerable extension of optical field outside the NW. This adds up to the mirror losses, because only the fraction of the field that is confined inside the NW experiences a refractive index contrast at the end facets, thereby limiting the amount of reflection and feedback. As such, the threshold gain is a strong function of NW length and diameter. It is known that the modal gain is the product of the material gain and the optical confinement factor in conventional semiconductor lasers. Typically () describes the overlap between the gain region and the resonance mode, which is amplified within the cavity in a standard semiconductor laser with a weak waveguiding. This concept is no longer valid for NW lasers with high-index contrast or strong waveguiding.99–106 Mathematically, it has been proved that the confinement factor in a nanolaser, as displayed in Fig. 2(c), could be greater than 1,106 hinting that the modal gain could be larger than the material gain. The physical meaning of this interesting phenomenon in nanolasers has also been clearly clarified in Ref. 106 where has been written as where is the phase velocity in the gain medium and is the energy velocity of the waveguide. The slower energy velocity of the waveguide mode makes this prefactor more than 1, yielding could be more than 1. Most importantly, the larger modal gain makes it possible to have a laser with a lower threshold, which becomes very crucial in laser miniaturization.Another major difference between NW and standard semiconductor lasers is their feedback or cavity mechanism. It is often assumed that a NW laser works as a FP cavity considering similar localized reflectors at both ends of the NW. But since the size of NW facets is comparable with or smaller than the wavelength involved, NW facets behave more like localized scattering centers rather than large planar reflectors considered in a standard FP cavity. Depending on the modes, wavelength, and diameter of the wires, the reflectivity in NWs can be significantly different from the results of the Fresnel formula for planar reflectors.107 Since the facet reflectivities determine the threshold of a laser, a good understanding and an accurate estimation of the facet reflectivities are very important and have been discussed in detail in recent publications.102,105,107 Modal characteristics of NWs can be analyzed by cylindrical waveguide theory.108 This is because the cylindrical NWs have transverse confinement structure similar to that of the optical fibers. Hence, the modal characteristics of NWs surrounded by air can be described by a full set of optical modes including transverse electric (TE), transverse magnetic (TM), and their hybrid modes (i.e., HE and EH modes) obtained from a cylindrical dielectric waveguide. Detailed analysis of modal characteristics in NW lasers can be found elsewhere.58,107,109,110 Like all nanoscale lasers, NW lasers exhibit more complicated far-field emission patterns than the conventional semiconductor lasers. As the size of lasers gets smaller, larger index contrast is required to obtain a better waveguiding. This leads to a divergent far-field profile as a result of fully vectorial (or nonparaxial) propagation.106 Besides, the scattered light output by the NW end facets further complicates the far field. Maslov and Ning107 theoretically analyzed the far-field emission patterns from individual NWs through a near-field scanning study. But the experiment was carried out on NWs horizontally lying on a substrate, which is different from the numerical simulation study.32 Further experiments on NWs, either vertically standing or suspended in air, are needed to verify the theoretical prediction. Moreover, a detailed theoretical understanding of the far-field behavior of a NW on a dielectric or a semiconductor substrate is required to compare with the experimental results.107 In most of the experimental realizations, III-nitride NW lasers are fabricated from homogeneous semiconductors, such as GaN, utilizing the simplest FP cavity. However, poor reflectivity with less than 25% at both top and bottom facets requires the NW to be as long as several tens of micrometers, in order to achieve lasing action. Due to the requirement of such unrealistically long NWs, achieving high-performance single NW lasers is fundamentally a technological challenge. Furthermore, on the way toward achieving wavelength tunable nanolasers, one could think of using InGaN embedded in NWs which could serve as a composition-variable gain medium. But the gain from the nanostructures with small volume is too low to overcome the cavity and high-mirror losses. Most importantly, significant scattering loss prevents smaller diameter NWs from lasing. While recently reported dielectric optical microcavities, including microdisks, microposts, photonic crystals and metal claddings are approaching small-scale cavities, their physical sizes are larger than the emission wavelength for the effective confinement of photons. In contrast, plasmonics open up a new route for the strong confinement of light to a fraction of their freespace wavelength. Their unique dispersion relations enable propagation of light at short wavelengths along the metal-dielectric interfaces, making it possible to realize optical cavities with subwavelength mode volume and high-quality factor (Q). This results in an enhanced light-matter interaction and an increased spontaneous emission and strong coupling in quantum electrodynamics in such nanocavities. Furthermore, a giant modal gain can be achieved in such plasmonic nanocavity due to an even higher confinement factor defined in Eq. (5) for completely FP-based nanocavity.95 Importantly, the existence of this giant modal gain near the surface plasmon polariton (SPP) resonance will play an important role in achieving the smallest nanolasers; also due to the cost effectiveness and simplicity, the nanoplasmonic concept seems to be one of the most suitable approaches toward the realization of single NW lasers. For an optimized design of NW plasmonic laser, it is important to understand the basic operation of plasmonic FP nanolasers, which are presented elsewhere.111–113 5.Growth of III-Nitride NWsVarious methods have been developed for the growth and the synthesis of III-nitride NWs. The most commonly used methods for GaN NWs are chemical vapor deposition (CVD) and molecular beam epitaxy (MBE). NWs grown using these methods could have hexagonal, triangular, or rectangular cross-sectional areas, as displayed in Fig. 3. GaN NWs grown by metalorganic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) can exhibit either hexagonal or triangular cross-sections.114,115 High-quality InGaN NWs can also be grown by many methods including CVD,81,116 MBE,12,81,116–118 and hydride vapor phase epitaxy.119,120 Recently, significant efforts have already been devoted to the development of various InGaN NW heterostructures including core-shell,81,121 well/disk-in-a-wire,122,123 and dot-in-a-wire12,66 based nanostructures, wherein large bandgap GaN or AlGaN layers are often employed as the barrier or the shell structures to provide effective radial and/or axial carrier confinement. Currently, various InN nanostructures, such as nanocrystals,124 nanocolumns,125 nanorods,126 NWs,96 nanotubes, nanotips,127 and nanobelts,36 have been extensively reported. 6.Demonstration of III-Nitride Nanowire LasersIn the following sections, we will discuss the representative examples of experimentally demonstrated III-nitride NW lasers. The structural descriptions of each NW laser will also be briefly provided. These exemplary devices are classified based on their cavity configurations and feedback mechanisms employed. 6.1.Fabry-Pérot LasersIn NW-based FP cavity, when the guided modes reach the NW end, part of them escape from the NW and the rest is reflected back to the cavity. The large refractive index difference between the semiconductor material and its surrounding dielectric environment enables photonic confinement in the NW cavities through the total internal reflection (TIR) mechanism, as shown in Fig. 4. Significant efforts have already been undertaken by many research groups for using NW as a FP cavity for the realization of a laser. In 2002, two research groups from University of California, Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA, achieved the first optically pumped room-temperature laser emission from a single GaN NW.32 The MOCVD-grown single GaN NW used in this study had lengths as long as , in order to reduce the effective mirror loss. One year later, UV lasing from optically pumped core-sheath quantum wires was demonstrated by the same research group.23 Vapor-liquid-solid (VLS) epitaxial process was employed to grow cylindrical GaN cores with diameters as small as 5 nm cladded by a 50- to 100-nm layer of . Normally, GaN NWs with diameters less than are too leaky to sustain laser cavity modes. Surrounding slender GaN wires with a material of larger bandgap and smaller refractive index creates a structure with simultaneous exciton and photon confinements. According to the authors, the core provides a gain medium, while the sheath acts as a FP cavity under optical pumping. Significantly, blueshifted PL, which is a signature of the quantum confinement effect, was observed from such unique nanostructures. But the lasing threshold was roughly 10 times higher than those of larger, unclad GaN NW lasers.32 In 2005, Gradečak et al. from Harvard University (USA) reported new optical studies of GaN NWs, which exhibited stimulated emission with lower lasing thresholds34 when compared with the results achieved in 2002.32 Such ultraviolet-blue emitting devices also operated at room temperature. The authors believed that NWs with improved structural characteristics led to excellent free-standing FP cavities, which, together with reduced deep-level defect-related emission by -type doping, could further reduce the threshold pump power. Again 1 year later, infrared lasing from single-crystalline InN NWs with belt geometry was demonstrated by research teams from Taiwan.36 Nanobelts employed into this study were grown by MOCVD and had well-faceted morphologies with atomically smooth surfaces. Such nanobelts had widths ranging from 40 to 250 nm, thicknesses from 10 to 35 nm, and length of . Lasing action from such unique nanostructures was observed at 20 K under CW optical pumping. A new type of tunable nanolaser was described by Qian et al. from Harvard University (USA) and Georgia Institute of Technology (USA) in 2008,38 which involved the use of multiquantum-well (MQW) core/shell NW heterostructures. Lasing over a broad range of wavelengths at room temperature was reported here. In particular, the structure consists of a GaN NW core that acts as the optical cavity surrounded by InGaN/GaN MQW shells [see Fig. 5(a)] that serve as a composition-tunable gain medium. Such NW heterostructure contains 3 to 26 QWs. In this study, dimensions of NWs were 200 to 400 nm in diameter and 20 to 60 μm in length. By varying the indium content, the emission wavelength can be tuned between 365 and 494 nm, as shown in Fig. 5(b). Recently, research groups from University of New Mexico, USA, and Sandia National Laboratory, USA, developed the first single-mode NW laser with a side-mode suppression ratio (SMSR) of more than 18 dB by using GaN NWs.46 Devices were optically pumped and lased at 370 nm with a threshold of . Then, the same research groups achieved a stable single-mode () operation in coupled GaN NW cavities utilizing Vernier effect as a mode-selecting mechanism.47 Such a coupled cavity was realized in this study by placing two NWs side-by-side in contact to form a NW pair, as displayed in Figs. 6(a) and 6(b). According to the authors, Vernier effect plays a major role in suppressing the multiple transverse-mode oscillation as well as multiple longitude-mode oscillation of the GaN NW, where its diameter is much larger than the wavelength. Devices were optically pumped and lased at 370 nm [Fig. 6(c)] with a threshold of . Very recently, the same research groups together with researchers at the University of Essex, UK, have demonstrated a mechanism for lasing-mode selection by coupling a GaN NW laser to an underlying gold substrate.48 A mode-dependent loss was induced by the gold substrate to suppress multiple transverse-mode operation, and thus, enable single-mode lasing behavior from NWs. 6.2.Plasmonic LasersOne promising approach to realize a plasmonic nanolaser is the use of hybrid systems128 composed of noble metals and gain materials. Key to this design is the high-permittivity contrast at the low/high-dielectric interfaces, leading to a strong optical confinement in a thin (few nanometer) gap region, which greatly reduces plasmonic loss.128 The self-aligned single-crystalline NWs will be used as the gain medium in semiconductor nanolasers. Figure 7 displays the schematic of the plasmonic nanolaser consisting of a NW coupled to a crystalline thin metal film, e.g., Ag, with a very thin insulating gap layer, e.g., . For the feedback mechanism, FP is introduced in the nanocavity where two end facets of the NW serve as mirrors.129 The first plasmonic III-nitride nanolaser based on such metal-oxide-semiconductor structure emitting in the green wavelength regime was realized by two research groups from National Tsing-Hua University and National Chiao-Tung University, China.43 Optically pumped lasing has been demonstrated here with an operating temperature of 7 K. Later, the same research groups along with some other collaborative groups from USA and China reported such hybrid plasmonic nanolasers with a better performance using the same concept but with some further refinement in the device structure.45 Devices with almost the same emission wavelength exhibited CW lasing operation up to 78 K. 6.2.1.Structural descriptionsWu et al. reported a nanoscale metal-oxide semiconductor (MOS) structure consisting of a green-emitting InGaN/GaN nanorod bundle coupled with a 50-nm thick colloidal gold triangular plate with a 5-nm thick spin-on-glass (SOG; ) gap layer.33 Later, Lu et al. refined such structures by replacing colloidal gold plate with epitaxially grown, atomically smooth Ag films as a scalable plasmonic platform.34 The NW plasmonic nanocavity was formed between epitaxial Ag film and a single nanorod consisting of a GaN shell and a green-emitting InGaN core as gain medium. On the top of the epitaxial 80-nm Ag thin film, the sample was capped with about 1.5 nm of amorphous germanium (Ge) grown by MBE. The nanocavity was defined by a 480-nm-long GaN nanorod partially filled with a 170-nm-long InGaN gain medium and separated by a 5-nm spacer from the epitaxial Ag, as shown in Fig. 8(a). Note that in both studies, the InGaN/GaN core-shell nanorods were grown on Si(111) by plasma-assisted MBE with the nanorods growing along the wurtzite polar c-axis direction. 6.2.2.Experimental resultsFor the nanocavity with epitaxial Ag film, a light-light () plot shows the output power of the lasing mode at 510 nm as a function of pump power for two different temperatures 8 and 78 K [Fig. 9(b)] under CW operation. The lasing signature can be seen from the concurrent onset of the linewidth narrowing plateau and the nonlinear kink of the “S”-shaped plot. The lasing thresholds are 2.1 and at temperatures 8 and 78 K, respectively. For a single nanorod, these power densities correspond to threshold powers of 56 and 100 nW at the respective temperatures. Lu et al. claimed that the achieved CW-lasing thresholds for the Ag film-based plasmonic nanolasers are at least two orders of magnitude smaller when compared with their previously reported colloidal gold plate-based lasing structures with an emission wavelength of 533 nm under pulsed mode.33 This is mainly because of the use of atomically smooth epitaxial Ag film, which minimizes the plasmonic loss. 6.3.Photonic Crystal LasersWhile the modal gain of a NW FP cavity is strongly dependent on the NW length,130 an external high-Q photonic crystal microcavity providing a strong feedback regardless of the NW dimension offers the possibility of achieving nanoscale lasing. Taking this fact into account, an optically pumped monolithic single GaN NW laser on Si with a 2-D photonic crystal (PC) resonant cavity operating at room temperature has been recently reported by a group at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.40 6.3.1.Structural descriptionsGaN NWs were grown on Si(111) substrates in the absence of a foreign metal catalyst in plasma-assisted MBE system. As schematically shown in Fig. 10(a), the device heterostructure consists of a single GaN NW at the center of a H2 defect and surrounded by a 2-D PC microcavity fabricated using layer and spin-on-glass (SOG). Here, the SOG layer, a low refractive index material, was chosen to reduce the optical loss from the layer to the Si substrate. The PC was arranged in a triangular lattice with air holes of radius 40 nm and period 120 nm. During device fabrication, a small hollow was formed around the NW in the center of the H2 defect. Based on the calculation, such hollow was assumed to be a partially filled hole with a diameter of 80 nm, whereas its depth was roughly estimated to be based on the amount of deposited on the top of the NW. 6.3.2.Experimental resultsThe authors reported the signature of laser action in such PC structure under optical excitation with a threshold pump power densities of , as illustrated in Fig. 11(a). The device was operated at room temperature under quasi-CW mode. Moreover, the output emission exhibited a fairly narrow peak with a linewidth of 4.5 nm at 370.4 nm. According to the authors, this could be due to the Purcell effect, which leads to an enhanced spontaneous emission. Such enhanced emission becomes even stronger near threshold and turns into a coherent laser-like emission above threshold. The variation of the measured emission linewidth with pump power is shown in Fig. 11(b). The linewidth falls off very rapidly after the device reaches its threshold indicating the onset of lasing. 6.4.Ring Resonator LasersRecently, ring resonators are of significant research interest as building blocks for various photonic applications including wavelength division multiplexers, add-drop filters, and lasers. Compared with other kinds of cavities, ring resonators offer scalability in size and flexibility in mode design. Moreover, a ring cavity offers a better resonance than a linear FP cavity because of the efficient recirculation of light.131,132 6.4.1.Structural descriptionsNitride ring resonator nanolasers were first fabricated and analyzed by a Berkeley group led by Yang.35 Nanoring resonator is formed by converting a NW into a ring. The ring structure fabricated from a linear GaN NW was synthesized via a chemical vapor transport process in a hot-wall furnace with metallic gallium and ammonia precursors. Single growth-direction wires with triangular cross-sections were modified with the micromanipulator by pushing the two ends together in a side-by-side geometry to ensure optical coupling, as shown in Fig. 12. 6.4.2.Experimental resultsWire and ring structures, as displayed in Figs. 13(a) and 13(b), respectively, were optically pumped by varying the excitation power under pulsed operation. Both structures exhibited lasing action at room temperature. There is a clear change in the lasing behavior of the ring structure as compared with the linear NWs. A significant redshift relative to the linear wire is observed in such ring structures. For example, under similar power fluence (), the ring nanolaser in Fig. 13(c) has its maximum emission intensity which is 9-nm redshifted from the equivalent linear structure. Please note that the measured threshold power density of such ring structure is , being 50% higher than its linear counterpart. According to the authors, changes to the optical boundary conditions of the lasing cavity affect the structure’s PL, photon confinement, and lasing as a function of the ring diameter. Unlike linear FP cavity, the ring resonator nanolaser exhibits a significant redshift with the change of the ring diameter due to conformational changes of the cavity. These results clearly demonstrated the versatility of NW laser cavities for using as tunable laser systems in future integrated-photonic platforms. 6.5.Microstadium LasersRecently, there has been much interest generated in a stadium-shaped microcavity which is rigorously known to be fully chaotic. Such stadium-shaped laser diodes were pioneered by Siegman’s group, and the oscillation behaviors have been studied for this type of resonator.133 A stadium microresonator is particularly interesting for the following reasons:
In spite of all the above-mentioned advantages, the chaotic microcavity lasers usually exhibit a low-Q which leads to a high lasing threshold. The first microstadium III-nitride NW laser reported by Park et al. was a hybrid approach that combined an active semiconductor NW with a stadium microresonator for low-threshold stimulated emission.37 Here room-temperature lasing in an optically pumped single NW stadium microresonator emitting at 372 nm was reported. 6.5.1.Structural descriptionsFor the realization of microstadium laser, the hybrid structure developed by the collaborators from Korea University and Harvard University consists of a single-crystal GaN NW and a silicon nitride () stadium microresonator.37 The slab structure was fabricated on a thick post with a low refractive index of 1.5. is essentially transparent and exhibits a high refractive index of 2.1 at the emission wavelength of 365 nm, corresponding to the band gap energy of GaN (). Hence, structure establishes a microstadium optical cavity surrounding the NW, as shown in Fig. 14(a). Figure 14(b) shows the SEM image of a fabricated stadium microresonator using a NW. The NW on the top of the stadium was long. The length of one side of such NWs with triangular cross-section was . Relatively thin and short NWs were used in this study to minimize the cavity effect of NW itself. The magnified SEM image of a NW end is shown in the inset of Fig. 14(b). NWs are placed on the slab in a way that their two ends are aligned and located at the two foci of such microstadium. 6.5.2.Experimental resultsFigure 15(a) displays the PL peak intensities of the microstadium structure as a function of pump power density. It is shown that above a threshold power density of , the PL intensities clearly show a sharp transition from spontaneous to stimulated emission. Figure 15(b) shows the lasing-mode image measured in the structure. Since the refractive indices of GaN and are very close to each other at the wavelength of 365 nm, light is coupled from the NW with the slab. Moreover, light emission from the NW can be strongly confined in the entire stadium, as shown in Fig. 15(b). It should be noted that the measured threshold of this microstadium laser is larger than the threshold of a typical single NW laser on glass which is on the order of 100 to . But these research groups believe that even higher confinement factor without sacrificing the high-Q can be achieved in the hybrid single NW structure by using higher refractive index microstadium and/or lower refractive index substrate. Thus, the laser threshold in the device could be further reduced. 6.6.Random LasersOptical scattering was often considered to be detrimental to laser performance, because such scattering removes photons from the lasing modes of a conventional laser cavity. However, it is found that light scattering plays a positive role in a disordered active medium and can provide an effective means of achieving gain for laser oscillation. Multiple scattering increases the optical path length in a gain medium which results in enhanced laser amplification as illustrated in Fig. 16. In addition, recurrent light scattering could provide coherent feedback for laser oscillation.134 Recently, there are great interests in studying photonic quasicrystals, which may lie somewhere between periodic and random structures. Utilizing such quasi-periodic structures, one could think of designing a pseudo-random laser with deterministic properties, which may play a significant role for practical applications. In a related approach, Chang et al. recently reported the observation of stimulated emission resembling random lasing from optically pumped GaN quasicrystal nanorod arrays.44 6.6.1.Structural descriptionsThe quasicrystal nanorod array was formed on MOCVD-grown 3-μm-thick GaN epitaxial layer. Using nanoimprint lithography, top-down patterned etching was done on this layer to prepare a 12-fold symmetric quasicrystal pattern. Crystalline facets were formed on the etched GaN nanorod surfaces. MOCVD regrowth was done to grow multiple InGaN/GaN QWs on the crystalline facets, which led to a core-shell nanorod structure. The plane-view SEM image of the fabricated nanorods is shown in Fig. 17(b), which shows the 12-fold symmetric quasicrystal pattern of nanorod arrays. The sidewall length of hexagonal nanorod is . The quasicrystal pattern shown in Fig. 17(a) is overlaid on the SEM image to show its quasicrystal pattern. 6.6.2.Experimental resultsThe PL spectra of nanopillar sample at various pump intensities are shown in Fig. 18(a), where the legends are pump intensities indicated in Fig. 18(b). With increasing pumping intensity, multiple emission peaks with narrow linewidths in the range of 0.2 to 0.3 nm appeared from the broad emission background. The integrated intensity within such broad emission background ranging from 455 to 470 nm as a function of pump intensity is shown in Fig. 18(b), where an onset of lasing action at threshold pump intensity of is clearly observed. Please note that this broad emission wavelength range corresponds to the high gain regime of the MQWs embedded in nanorods. Unlike conventional lasers, there is an obvious irregularity for the emission wavelengths (or the spacing among them) of these multiple lasing peaks. It is unlikely that these irregular lasing modes are due to WG modes of individual nanorods or any regular optical feedback paths. Another important point worth noting is that the intensities of these lasing peaks do not necessarily show the increasing trend with pump power. The intensities for some of these peaks may even decrease at some point with increasing power, when compared with other emerging peaks, hinting that there are mode competitions among lasing peaks. 6.7.Polariton LasersPolaritons are light-matter hybrids which form through interactions between highly confined light and an excited electron-hole pair (exciton) within a cavity. Unlike conventional photon lasers, polariton lasers are not constrained by population inversion and stimulated emission, i.e., very little energy is required to operate a polariton laser. Therefore, it is strongly believed that polaritons offer a way to create lasers with very low power requirements. Furthermore, polariton lasers will bring fundamental benefits of many-body quantum physics in our real-life applications. Their unique physical properties could be utilized for realizing novel types of application-suited spin switches and terahertz lasers.135 One of the most promising materials for polariton lasing is GaN, which allows for room-temperature action due to a large exciton binding energy. Recently, a new structure containing GaN NWs as the active media was developed by a group at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, to fabricate polariton lasers.42 Such lasers with an emission wavelength of operate at room temperature with an ultralow threshold. 6.7.1.Structural descriptionsFor the purpose of demonstrating a polariton laser, the authors used a single GaN NW in a dielectric microcavity. As shown schematically in Fig. 19, the NW was buried in a -thick inner cavity made of . This inner cavity was sandwiched between a top and a bottom dielectric Bragg mirror made of seven pairs of . A single NW was placed at the central antinode of the cavity field so that the interaction between the GaN NW excitons and the cavity mode became maximized. The inset of Fig. 19 shows the SEM image of a horizontally lying NW on the top of the half cavity, which is without the top cavity. Such buried cylindrical NW with a diameter of was long. 6.7.2.Experimental resultsThe authors recorded a sharp increase of the PL intensity from lower polaritons (LPs) at in-plane wave number with increasing pumping power, as shown in Fig. 20(a). The incident excitation energy at threshold was at 300 K. Such behavior was confirmed by a sharp decrease in the emission linewidth and a small blueshift of the LP energy [Fig. 20(b)]. These two features are clear indications of stimulated scattering into the LP states near . A second distinct threshold relating to a conventional photon laser was found at and . In other words, the second threshold corresponding to photon lasing was observed at a density of 2700 times the polariton lasing threshold density. According to the authors, the threshold density in such a device was 2 orders of magnitude lower than any previously reported GaN-based polariton lasers. 6.8.Two-Dimensional DFB LasersSince the first introduction of distributed-feedback (DFB)-based laser by Kogelnik and Shank,136 this concept has undergone rapid developments, in order to obtain lasing action. The fabrication of 2-D-DFB GaInAsP/InP laser diodes was one of the greatest achievements, in which the laser beam was radiated perpendicularly to the surface.137 The same concept has been applied to the study of blue-violet GaN 2-D-DFB laser action, where the periodic air-hole structures inducing the 2-D light confinement was used.138 Recently, Kouno et al. from Sophia University, Japan, first experimentally demonstrated high-performance 2-D-DFB laser action in the blue wavelength regime using high-density InGaN/GaN nanocolumn array having a dielectric cylinder.39 On the way toward the realization of lasers with green emission wavelength, later Ishizawa et al. reported stimulated emission as 2-D-DFB lasers by employing InGaN-QW nanocolumn arrays.41 6.8.1.Structural descriptionsKouno et al. used a MOCVD-grown (0001) 3.5-μm thick GaN template, whereas GaN rectangular-lattice nanocolumn arrays with 8-period InGaN/GaN MQWs at the top of the columns were grown by RF-MBE.39 Figure 21 displays SEM images of a vertically aligned nanocolumn array sample fabricated in this study. Each GaN nanocolumns with a hexagonal cross-section had the side length of 92 nm and the height along the c-axis of approximately 850 nm. The GaN nanocolumns were arranged in a rectangular lattice by adjusting a particular horizontal and vertical lattice constant [see Fig. 21(b)]. Most importantly, the lasing wavelength of a nanocolumn array is controlled by two parameters, i.e., lattice constant and hexagonal side length. 6.8.2.Experimental resultsFigure 22(a) displays the RT emission spectra measured by changing the excitation power intensity, where a sharp and a strong emission peak was observed at 471 nm at a power density of approximately . The intensity increased nonlinearly as a function of excitation power density, as shown in Fig. 22(b). This was the clear signature of the stimulated emission. The 2-D light confinement enhanced the optical gain at this wavelength,139 yielding the stimulated emission. Using the similar concept, Ishizawa et al. demonstrated blue to green stimulated emission from InGaN-QW nanocolumn arrays, in which the emission wavelength was controlled through the structural parameters of the lattice constant and the nanocolumn diameter in the wavelength ranges of 440 to 510 and 530 to 560 nm, respectively.41 Note that the lasing threshold for the nanocolumn arrays with a peak emission wavelength of 552 nm appeared at excitation power densities greater than . The authors claimed that 560 nm was the longest wavelength ever reported for stimulated emission among InGaN-based QWs. 7.Future Directions and ConclusionIn summary, we have provided a detailed overview of the current research status of III-nitride NW lasers. In spite of the achievements of optically pumped nanolasers worldwide, there have been no results on electrically pumped III-nitride NW lasers reported so far. Such electrically driven semiconductor nanolasers are required for practical applications. There are several issues that need to be addressed, in order to achieve electrical injection in nanolasers. From the growth point of view, nearly defect-free NWs with well-controlled doping levels as well as active regions with sufficiently large gain will be needed. From the viewpoint of fabrication, it is necessary but challenging to obtain a low-resistive metal-semiconductor Ohmic contact at the nanoscale level without degrading the optical confinement. Many device physics issues such as electrical and thermal transport properties, carrier injection efficiency, and lateral band bending due to surface defects or morphology in such nano- or sub-micron scale structures need to be understood through detailed experimental and theoretical studies. Meanwhile, various heterostructures in axial or radial direction or in cross-bar configuration23,28,38 have been fabricated, but it is still not clear which approach provides better electrical injection and what the optimized structures are for efficient carrier injection. Nanolasers with reduced threshold and large Purcell factors open a fundamentally new pathway for improving laser modulation bandwidth.140 In spite of the recent demonstration of optically pumped photonic crystal nanocavity lasers with thresholds of only a few nanowatt141 and modulation rates exceeding 100 GHz,142 to our best knowledge, there have been no reports on the dynamic characteristics of NW-based lasers. It is, therefore, also of interest to explore III-nitride NW lasers for high-speed modulation that is relevant for communication applications. For most real-world applications, the output power needs to be reasonably high, which, to date, has not been obtained from NW lasers. 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BiographyShamsul Arafin received his B.Sc. degree in electrical and electronics engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Bangladesh in 2005 and M.Sc. degree in communication technology from Universität Ulm, Germany in 2008. He received his PhD degree from Technische Universität München, Walter Schottky Institut Germany, in early 2012. Then, he joined the nanophotonics group of Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at McGill University as a post-doc fellow. His current research interests include semiconductor lasers, nanophotonic devices, and integrated photonics. Xianhe Liu obtained his B.Sc. degree from Huaqiao University in 2012. Now, he is a PhD student in the nanophotonics group led by Professor Zetian Mi at McGill University. His research interests cover III-nitride based nanolasers and ultraviolet light-emitting diodes. Zetian Mi is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at McGill University. He is also an associate member in the Department of Physics at McGill. He received his PhD degree in applied physics from the University of Michigan in 2006. His teaching and research interests are in the areas of III-nitride semiconductors, solar fuels, nanophotonics, and nanoelectronics. He has published seven book chapters and more than 200 refereed journal and conference papers. He has received the Hydro-Quebec Nano-Engineering Scholar Award in 2009, the William Dawson Scholar Award in 2011, and the Christophe Pierre Award for Research Excellence (Early Career) in 2012 at McGill University. He has also received the Young Investigator Award from the 27th North American Molecular Beam Epitaxy Conference. He currently serves as the associate editor of IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology. |