Two-Photon-Pumped Perovskite Semiconductor Nanocrystal Lasers

Two-photon-pumped lasers have been regarded as a promising strategy to achieve frequency up-conversion for situations where the condition of phase matching required by conventional approaches cannot be fulfilled. However, their practical applications have been hindered by the lack of materials holdi...

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Published in:Journal of the American Chemical Society 2016-03, Vol.138 (11), p.3761-3768
Main Authors: Xu, Yanqing, Chen, Qi, Zhang, Chunfeng, Wang, Rui, Wu, Hua, Zhang, Xiaoyu, Xing, Guichuan, Yu, William W, Wang, Xiaoyong, Zhang, Yu, Xiao, Min
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Language:English
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Summary:Two-photon-pumped lasers have been regarded as a promising strategy to achieve frequency up-conversion for situations where the condition of phase matching required by conventional approaches cannot be fulfilled. However, their practical applications have been hindered by the lack of materials holding both efficient two-photon absorption and ease of achieving population inversion. Here, we show that this challenge can be tackled by employing colloidal nanocrystals of perovskite semiconductors. We observe highly efficient two-photon absorption (with a cross section of 2.7 × 106 GM) in toluene solutions of CsPbBr3 nanocrystals that can excite large optical gain (>500 cm–1) in thin films. We have succeeded in demonstrating stable two-photon-pumped lasing at a remarkable low threshold by coupling CsPbBr3 nanocrystals with microtubule resonators. Our findings suggest perovskite nanocrystals can be used as excellent gain medium for high-performance frequency-up-conversion lasers toward practical applications.
ISSN:0002-7863
1520-5126
DOI:10.1021/jacs.5b12662