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中国物理学会期刊

基于梯形光栅合并BIC的低阈值纳米激光

Low-threshold Nanolasers Based on Merging BICs in Trapezoidal Gratings

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  • 实现低阈值、高性能的纳米激光器是光子集成电路与片上光源领域的挑战之一.连续域束缚态(Bound states in the continuum, BICs)因其理论上无限高的品质因数(Q因子),可极大增强光-物质相互作用,为实现低阈值纳米激光器提供了有效途径.然而,理想BIC无法被直接激发,实际应用中需通过打破对称性将其转化为准BIC(quasi-BIC).但准BIC的Q因子对结构参数特别敏感,在实际制备中难以保持良好性能.为此,本文提出基于梯形光栅合并BIC的设计方案,实现了一种低阈值、鲁棒性强的纳米激光.该结构通过打破垂直对称性,在动量空间诱导多个BIC发生合并,从而在较宽波矢范围内实现超高Q因子谐振,降低了对入射角与制备误差的敏感性.通过数值仿真分析其激射响应,计算得到该梯形光栅合并BIC理论纳米激光器的激射阈值可低至0.816 μJ/cm2,低于传统矩形光栅合并BIC.本文数值仿真结果验证了合并BIC在设计低阈值、高稳定性纳米激光器方面的潜在应用价值.

     

    Achieving low-threshold and highly stable nanolasers remains a major challenge for photonic integrated circuits and on-chip light sources. Bound states in the continuum (BICs), owing to their theoretically infinite quality factors (Q-factors), offer an effective strategy to boost light-matter interactions for low-threshold lasing. However, ideal BICs are decoupled from external radiation fields, requiring symmetry breaking to transform them into quasi-BICs for practical excitation. Nevertheless, the Q-factors of quasi-BICs are exquisitely sensitive to structural parameters, hindering performance preservation under real-world fabrication conditions. To overcome this limitation, we propose a merging BIC design based on a trapezoidal grating with an indium phosphide (InP) gain medium to realize low-threshold, highly robust nanolasers. The band structures and Q-factors were calculated using the finite element method (COMSOL Multiphysics), and the lasing dynamics were investigated via the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method. By breaking the vertical symmetry of the grating, multiple BICs are merging in momentum space, resulting in ultrahigh-Q resonances (Q > 105) over a broad momentum range of Δk ≈ 0.13. At a central lasing wavelength of 838 nm, the lasing threshold of the trapezoidal grating merging BIC nanolaser is as low as 0.816 μJ/cm2, representing an 18% reduction compared to its rectangular grating counterpart (1.000 μJ/cm2). Furthermore, tolerance analysis indicates that under typical fabrication imperfections—such as 10 nm-level dimensional deviations and sidewall roughness—the proposed structure maintains high-Q resonances with the lasing threshold strictly controlled below 1.320 μJ/cm2, demonstrating superior fabrication tolerance and perturbation immunity. These numerical findings highlight the strong potential of trapezoidal grating merging BICs in designing low-threshold, highly stable on-chip nanolasers.

     

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