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Measurement of the second-order coherence function for metallic nanolasers

Optics 2019-07-11 v1

Abstract

Due to the high spontaneous emission coupled into the resonance mode in metallic nanolasers, there has been a debate concerning the coherence properties of this family of light sources. The second-order coherence function can unambiguously determine the nature of a given radiation. In this paper, an approach to measure the second-order coherence function for broad linewidth sources in the near-infrared telecommunication band is established based on a modified Hanbury Brown and Twiss configuration. Using this set-up, it is shown that metallic coaxial and disk-shaped nanolasers with InGaAsP multiple quantum well gain systems are indeed capable of generating coherent radiation.

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@article{arxiv.1607.05348,
  title  = {Measurement of the second-order coherence function for metallic nanolasers},
  author = {William E. Hayenga and Hipolito Garcia-Gracia and Hossein Hodaei and Christian Reimer and Roberto Morandotti and Patrick Likamwa and Mercedeh Khajavikhan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1607.05348},
  year   = {2019}
}
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