TY - JOUR
T1 - Structured lasing with disordered high-Q perovskite cavities
AU - Zhou, Zhou
AU - Wang, Shihao
AU - Wen, Wen
AU - Qin, Jiazheng
AU - Chen, Weijin
AU - Tan, Junsheng
AU - Wang, Zhe
AU - Huang, Lingling
AU - Chen, Jianfeng
AU - Jiang, Lei
AU - Feng, Jiangang
AU - Qiu, Cheng Wei
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2026 the Authors
PY - 2026/5/13
Y1 - 2026/5/13
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/105039179182
U2 - 10.1126/sciadv.aef2717
DO - 10.1126/sciadv.aef2717
M3 - Article
C2 - 42127183
AN - SCOPUS:105039179182
SN - 2375-2548
VL - 12
JO - Science advances
JF - Science advances
IS - 20
M1 - eaef2717
ER -