Physics – Optics
Scientific paper
2010-05-10
Physical Review A: 83 (2011) 053836
Physics
Optics
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevA.83.053836
Nanoscale lasers sustain few optical modes so that the fraction of spontaneous emission $\beta$ funnelled into the useful (lasing) mode is high (of the order of few 10$^{-1}$) and the threshold, which traditionally corresponds to an abrupt kink in the light in- light out curve, becomes ill-defined. We propose an alternative definition of the threshold, based on the dynamical response of the laser, which is valid even for $\beta=1$ lasers. The laser dynamics is analyzed through a reconstruction of its phase-space trajectory for pulsed excitation. Crossing the threshold brings about a change in the shape of the trajectory and in the area contained in it. An unambiguous definition of the threshold in terms of this change is shown theoretically and illustrated experimentally in a photonic crystal laser.
Beveratos Alexios
Braive Remy
David Elvira
Gratiet Luc Le
Izo Abram
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