Multiphoton route to ZnO nanowire lasers

作者:Zhang, C F*; Dong, Z W; You, G J; Qian, S X; Deng, H
来源:Optics Letters, 2006, 31(22): 3345-3347.
DOI:10.1364/OL.31.003345

摘要

With intense femtosecond laser excitation, multiphoton absorption-induced stimulated emission and laser emission in ZnO bulk crystal and nanowires have been demonstrated at room temperature. UV-stimulated emission peaks appeared in both bulk crystal and nanowires when the excitation exceeded certain thresholds, and a sharp lasing peak with a linewidth of similar to 0.5 nm was observed from ZnO nanowires. The emission properties were attributed to the band-edge emission of the recombination of carriers excited by two- and three-photon absorption processes in the wide-bandgap semiconductor.