Electrically tunable WGM lasing in a metal-dielectric core–shell hybrid microcavity

Abstract

We present a hybrid cavity designed to manipulate lasing modes, consisting of a metal-dielectric core–shell hybrid microcavity fabricated using a simple brush-coating method. Single and multiple modes can be obtained in the proposed laser device by the trade-off between loss and gain. Moreover, we achieve electrically tunable whispering-gallery-mode lasing by employing the thermo-optic effect in the hybrid microcavity. The lasing peak of the modes can be electrically tuned by quantitative control of Joule heating. We measure a tuning rate of 15.3 pm/J for all the lasing peaks.