Controllable broadband multicolour single-mode polarized laser in a dye-assembled homoepitaxial MOF microcrystal

Multicolour single-mode polarized microlasers with visible to near-infrared output have very important applications in photonic integration and multimodal biochemical sensing/imaging but are very difficult to realize.Here,we demonstrate a single crystal with multiple segments based on the host-guest metal-organic framework ZJU-68 hierarchically hybridized with different dye molecules generating controllable single-mode green,red,and nearinfrared lasing,with the lasing mode mechanism revealed by computational simulation.The segmented and oriented assembly of different dye molecules within the ZJU-68 microcrystal causes it to act as a shortened resonator,enabling us to achieve dynamically controllable multicolour single-mode lasing with a low three-colour-lasing threshold of ~1.72 mJ/cm^(2)(approximately seven times lower than that of state-of-the-art designed heterostructure alloys,as reported by Fan F et al.(Nat.Nanotechnol.10:796-803,2015)considering the single pulse energy density)and degree of polarization>99.9%.Furthermore,the resulting three-colour single-mode lasing possesses the largest wavelength coverage of ~186 nm(ranging from ~534 to ~720 nm)ever reported.These findings may open a new route to the exploitation of multicolour single-mode micro/nanolasers constructed by MOF engineering for photonic and biochemical applications.