title: Tunable single-mode photonic lasing from zirconia inverse opal photonic crystals.
abstract: Lasing from zirconia inverse opal photonic crystal structures infiltrated by solutions of rhodamine dyes was found to exhibit single-mode lasing peaks with spectral width less than 1 nm and quality factor in excess of 4000. The lasing occurs within the approximate range of high-reflectance spectral region associated with photonic stop band along [111] crystallographic direction, but its wavelength is not fixed to the corresponding Bragg wavelength of the periodic structure, and depends on the spectral position of the gain band. This lasing regime can be useful for realizing tunable single-mode photonic crystal lasers.
authors.affiliation: Research Institute for Electronic Science, Hokkaido University, CRIS Bldg, Sapporo, Japan. misawa@es.hokudai.ac.jp
authors.forename: Hiroaki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Misawa
authors.forename: Yoshiaki
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Nishijima
authors.forename: Keisei
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ueno
authors.forename: Saulius
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Juodkazis
authors.forename: Vygantas
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Mizeikis
authors.forename: Mitsuru
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Maeda
authors.forename: Masashi
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Minaki
mesh_terms: D003198:Computer Simulation; D017076:Computer-Aided Design; D003460:Crystallization / Q000379:methods*; D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D007834:Lasers; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D017785:Photons; D012031:Refractometry / Q000295:instrumentation*; D015040:Zirconium / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D015040:Zirconium; C028541:zirconium oxide