Halide
perovskite nanowire-based lasers have become a powerful
tool for modern nanophotonics, being deeply subwavelength in cross-section
and demonstrating low-threshold lasing within the whole visible spectral
range owing to the huge gain of material even at room temperature.
However, their emission directivity remains poorly controlled because
of the efficient outcoupling of radiation through their subwavelength
facets working as pointlike light sources. Here, we achieve directional
lasing from a single perovskite CsPbBr3 nanowire by imprinting
a nanograting on its surface, which provides stimulated emission outcoupling
to its vertical direction with a divergence angle around 2°.
The nanopatterning is carried out by the high-throughput laser ablation
method, which preserves the luminescent properties of the material
that is typically deteriorated after processing via conventional lithographic
approaches. Moreover, nanopatterning of the perovskite nanowire is
found to decrease the number of the lasing modes with a 2-fold increase
of the quality factor of the remaining modes.
Single crystal halide perovskites with microscale dimensions are an emerging class of objects for various advanced photonic and optoelectronic applications. Particularly, defect tolerance and broadband tunability of luminescence make them one of the most prospective candidates to develop microlasers for visible range. However, their post‐processing by standard nanolithography methods face a number of problems related to worsening of their properties, thus making gentle laser processing one of best solutions for perovskite patterning. Here, it is shown that femtosecond laser irradiation of single‐crystal halide perovskite CsPbBr3 allows for its precise and ultraclean ablation fully controlled at subwavelength scale by the intensity and polarization distribution of the complex laser field applied. Indeed, the extremely low thermal conductivity (over 300 times lower than that of silicon) and ultrafast thermalization rate makes it possible to reduce heat‐affected zone and avoid melting layer contribution, while the high refractive index (larger than 2) provides high spatial resolution in case of irradiation of pre‐patterned focusing perovskite nanostructures. These features allow for direct imprinting of the incident laser field at wavelength λ = 515 nm, creating micro‐lens and various light‐emitting metasurfaces with deeply subwavelength spatial resolution (down to λ/7).
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