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Fully Integrated Perovskite Polaritonic Circuits with Tunable Lasing and Nonlinear Amplification

Optics 2025-12-03 v1

Abstract

Photonic integrated circuits are emerging as a key technology for compact and energy-efficient optical information processing. Yet, their practical implementation remains limited by the intrinsically weak optical nonlinearities of conventional materials, which demand high power and large footprints to achieve significant nonlinear responses. Exciton-polaritons, hybrid light-matter excitations of semiconducting materials, offer a promising solution by combining strong optical nonlinearities with the high speed and large scalability typical of photonic devices. However, despite their potential, working on-chip polaritonic elements demonstrating room temperature coherent lasing, controllable nonlinear propagation, or amplification have remained elusive. Here we demonstrate a fully integrated perovskite polaritonic circuit that overcomes these limitations. Using a single-step microfluidic lithographic technique, we realize waveguide circuits with integrated gratings that simultaneously act as couplers and mirrors, forming in-plane Fabry-P\'erot cavities. These structures support robust in-plane polariton lasing between gratings, yielding coherent emission along the waveguide. Furthermore, we observe clear signatures of strong nonlinear self-phase modulation and, for the first time, optical amplification of guided polaritons at room temperature. Our simple, scalable platform opens the way to low-power, highly nonlinear optical circuits for integrated photonics and neuromorphic architectures operating at room temperature.

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@article{arxiv.2512.02659,
  title  = {Fully Integrated Perovskite Polaritonic Circuits with Tunable Lasing and Nonlinear Amplification},
  author = {Antonio Fieramosca and Vincenzo Ardizzone and Rosanna Mastria and Laura Polimeno and Lorenzo Dominici and Umberto Dellasette and Andrea Notargiacomo and Marialilia Pea and Raffaella Polito and Eugenio Maggiolini and Rughianah Gohar Ashfaq and Fabio Bruni and Elisa Fardelli and Simona Sennato and Francesco Todisco and Dario Gerace and Dario Ballarini and Milena De Giorgi and Ilenia Viola and Daniele Sanvitto},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.02659},
  year   = {2025}
}

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18 pages, 4 figures

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