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  • Photonics and optical engineering
  • Metasurface and nanophotonics research
  • Laser physics and applications

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  • Integrated nanolasers are crucial for optical processing, communications, and medical treatments.
  • Existing nanolasers lack control over wavefront and radiation characteristics, requiring bulky external optics and suffering from speckle noise.
  • Previous efforts focused on manipulating polarization, orbital angular momentum, and directivity, but not the fundamental wavefront shaping.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce and demonstrate a novel metalaser capable of arbitrary wavefront shaping and reduced speckle noise.
  • To overcome the limitations of conventional nanolasers in terms of customization and noise.
  • To explore the use of dielectric resonant metasurfaces for advanced laser functionalities.

Main Methods:

  • Utilizing the interplay between local and nonlocal responses of dielectric resonant metasurfaces.
  • Confining the lasing mode via nonlocal interaction between meta-atoms in a planar structure.
  • Precisely shaping the beam wavefront by locally varying dipole momenta.

Main Results:

  • Demonstrated a metalaser capable of directly emitting desired beam profiles, including focal spots, lines, vector beams, vortex beams, and holograms.
  • Achieved negligible speckle noise in metalaser holograms due to weak scattered waves, unlike conventional lasers.
  • Showcased precise wavefront control through local manipulation of dipole momenta.

Conclusions:

  • The developed metalaser offers unprecedented control over laser beam profiles and radiation characteristics.
  • This technology provides a viable solution to the speckle noise problem in laser holography.
  • The findings advance laser understanding and performance for diverse optical and photonic applications.