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Structured lasing with disordered high-Q perovskite cavities

  • Zhou Zhou
  • , Shihao Wang
  • , Wen Wen
  • , Jiazheng Qin
  • , Weijin Chen
  • , Junsheng Tan
  • , Zhe Wang
  • , Lingling Huang
  • , Jianfeng Chen
  • , Lei Jiang
  • , Jiangang Feng*
  • , Cheng Wei Qiu*
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • National University of Singapore
  • University of Science and Technology of China
  • Tongji University
  • Beijing Institute of Technology

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Abstract

Nanoscale lasers with low thresholds and on-demand structured light output are essential for compact integrated photonic technology. Introducing engineered disorder into high quality–factor (Q) resonant cavities emerges as a promising route, yet the inaccurate disorder-to-phase correspondence and the limited symmetry breaking mechanisms restrict the achievable optical structures in output lasers. Here, by revealing translational disorder and rotational disorder as two decoupled symmetry-breaking mechanisms, we propose disorder-on-disorder (DoD) meta-cavities that allow for customizing eigenmodes for multichannel lasing emission control while preserving high-Q resonances. In the experiment, we structure perovskite into fully monolithic DoD meta-cavities to maximize mode-gain overlap and demonstrate structured lasing with low threshold (~7 microjoules per square centimeter), high Q (~103), and diverse structured laser arrays including phase/polarization vortices, one-dimensional and two-dimensional Airy beams, and Hermite- and Laguerre-Gaussian beams. Our findings highlight DoD meta-cavity as a distinct and generalized route to compact monolithic high-Q photonic devices, opening opportunities in structured lasers, nonlinear optics, and integrated quantum photonics.

Original languageEnglish
Article numbereaef2717
JournalScience advances
Volume12
Issue number20
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 13 May 2026
Externally publishedYes

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