Disordered photonics

DS Wiersma - Nature Photonics, 2013 - nature.com
What do lotus flowers have in common with human bones, liquid crystals with colloidal
suspensions, and white beetles with the beautiful stones of the Taj Mahal? The answer is …

Random distributed feedback fibre lasers

SK Turitsyn, SA Babin, DV Churkin, ID Vatnik, M Nikulin… - Physics reports, 2014 - Elsevier
The concept of random lasers exploiting multiple scattering of photons in an amplifying
disordered medium in order to generate coherent light without a traditional laser resonator …

Speckle-free laser imaging using random laser illumination

B Redding, MA Choma, H Cao - Nature photonics, 2012 - nature.com
Many imaging applications require increasingly bright illumination sources, motivating the
replacement of conventional thermal light sources with bright light-emitting diodes …

Electrically pumped waveguide lasing from ZnO nanowires

S Chu, G Wang, W Zhou, Y Lin, L Chernyak… - Nature …, 2011 - nature.com
Ultraviolet semiconductor lasers are widely used for applications in photonics, information
storage, biology and medical therapeutics. Although the performance of gallium nitride …

High gain Ga2O3 solar-blind photodetectors realized via a carrier multiplication process

GC Hu, CX Shan, N Zhang, MM Jiang, SP Wang… - Optics express, 2015 - opg.optica.org
Ga_2O_3 photodetectors with interdigitated electrodes have been designed and fabricated,
and the Ga_2O_3 area exposed to illumination acts as the active layer of the photodetector …

Electrically driven random lasing from a modified Fabry–Pérot laser diode

A Consoli, N Caselli, C López - Nature Photonics, 2022 - nature.com
Random lasers are intriguing devices with promising applications as light sources for
imaging, sensing, super-resolution spectral analysis or complex networks engineering …

Whispering‐gallery mode lasing in ZnO microcavities

C Xu, J Dai, G Zhu, G Zhu, Y Lin, J Li… - Laser & Photonics …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Zinc oxide (ZnO) is considered as an ideal candidate for ultraviolet (UV) lasers due to its
unique advantages of wide direct bandgap and large exciton binding energy. Recently …

Full-color flexible laser displays based on random laser arrays

Y Hou, Z Zhou, C Zhang, J Tang, Y Fan, FF Xu… - Science China …, 2021 - Springer
Flexible laser display is a critical component for an information output port in next-generation
wearable devices. So far, the lack of appropriate display panels capable of providing …

Lasing from micro-and nano-scale photonic disordered structures for biomedical applications

R Gayathri, CS Suchand Sandeep, C Vijayan… - Nanomaterials, 2023 - mdpi.com
A disordered photonic medium is one in which scatterers are distributed randomly. Light
entering such media experiences multiple scattering events, resulting in a “random walk” …

Multiple scattering from electrospun nanofibers with embedded silver nanoparticles of tunable shape for random lasers and white-light-emitting diodes

WC Chen, JH Shiao, TL Tsai, DH Jiang… - … applied materials & …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Random lasers (RLs) are convenient, tunable, and widely applicable. However, the
influence of fluorescence lifetime on the scattering and nanofiber distribution of nanofibers …