On-Chip Multiwavelength Single-Mode Lasers with CdSe Nanoribbons-Embedded Microcavities

Integrated multiwavelength nanolasers are important in the practical development of optical circuitry for optical information processing and optical data storage. Herein, a new method for on-chip integrated lasers is proposed, which can integrate single-mode lasers with multiple wavelengths at room temperature. A four-wavelength single-mode nanoribbon laser chip is fabricated for demonstration. The mode of different laser units is controlled by the thickness of dielectric microcavity layers to select the resonant modes of excitation. Therefore, multiwavelength lasing can be coupled out based on the integrated cavity which is realized using combinatorial etching technique and can integrate tens of different-wavelength lasers on a chip. The lasing modes of this device are all single-mode lasing because of the short cavity length. Its lowest lasing threshold is only 5.4 kW cm⁻². The gain material and the dielectric microcavity can be controlled and fabricated separately, which have strong controllability and flexibility. This new laser chip paves the way for a new class of hybrid nanolasers for chip-integrated applications.