摘要
Recent experiments demonstrated that chiral symmetry breaking at an exceptional point(EP) is a viable route to achieve unidirectional laser emission in microring lasers. By a detailed semiconductor laser rate equation model,we show here that unidirectional laser emission at an EP is a robust regime. Slight deviations from the EP condition can break preferential unidirectional lasing near threshold via a Hopf instability. However, abovea "second" laser threshold, unidirectional emission is restored.
Recent experiments demonstrated that chiral symmetry breaking at an exceptional point(EP) is a viable route to achieve unidirectional laser emission in microring lasers. By a detailed semiconductor laser rate equation model,we show here that unidirectional laser emission at an EP is a robust regime. Slight deviations from the EP condition can break preferential unidirectional lasing near threshold via a Hopf instability. However, abovea "second" laser threshold, unidirectional emission is restored.
基金
National Science Foundation(NSF)(DMR-1506884)
Army Research Office(ARO)(W911NF-15-1-0152)
