Ultralow-threshold six-photon-excited upconversion lasing in a plasmonic microcavity.

Nanoscale

State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies, School of Physics, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China.

Published: May 2022

Nonlinear multiphoton absorption (MPA) upconversion lasers have critical applications in fluorescence imaging probes and biological photonics. Here, we report the realization of ultralow-threshold six-photon-excited upconversion lasing through cavity quantum electrodynamics effects in a plasmonic microcavity. The value of the Purcell factor () in hybrid whisper-gallery mode (WGM) is enhanced five-fold relative to a bare microwire (MW), which enhances the nonlinear light-matter interactions dramatically. Compared with a MW, the threshold of six-photon upconversion WGM lasing is reduced by one order magnitude due to plasmonic enhancement effects. In addition, the temperature and polarization characteristics of upconversion lasing a plasmonic-WGM approach show a distinct evolution, different from a bare MW. This work paves the way for extreme nonlinear optics, taking advantage of the processability and high Purcell factor of plasmonic microcavities.

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