Measurement of the second-order coherence function for metallic nanolasers

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.

References in corpus (1)

• Unequivocal differentiation of coherent and chaotic light through interferometric photon correlation measurements

Cited by in corpus (10)

• Superthermal light emission and nontrivial photon statistics in small lasers
• Photon statistics and bunching of a chaotic semiconductor laser
• Dynamics at Threshold in Mesoscale Class-B Lasers
• Quantum fluctuations and lineshape anomaly in a high-$\beta$ silver-coated InP-based metallic nanolaser
• "Phase Transitions" in small systems: why standard threshold definitions fail for nanolasers
• Photon bursts at lasing onset and modeling issues in micro-VCSELs
• Coherence build up and laser thresholds from nanolasers to macroscopic lasers
• Measuring the frequency response of optically pumped metal-clad nanolasers
• Revisiting the Siegert relation for the partially coherent regime of nanolasers
• Population fluctuation mechanism of the super-thermal photon statistic of LEDs with collective effects