Lasing Action from Anapole Metasurfaces.

Tripathi, Aditya; Kim, Ha-Reem; Tonkaev, Pavel; Lee, Soon-Jae; Makarov, Sergey V; Kruk, Sergey S; Rybin, Mikhail V; Park, Hong-Gyu et al. · Nano Lett · 2021

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

We study active dielectric metasurfaces composed of two-dimensional arrays of split-nanodisk resonators fabricated in InGaAsP membranes with embedded quantum wells. Depending on the geometric parameters, such split-nanodisk resonators can operate in the optical anapole regime originating from an overlap of the electric dipole and toroidal dipole Mie-resonant optical modes, thus supporting strongly localized fields and high-<i>Q</i> resonances. We demonstrate room-temperature lasing from the anapole lattices of engineered active metasurfaces with low threshold and high coherence.