Laboratoire Charles Coulomb UMR 5221 CNRS/UM2 (L2C)

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NEWAVE project : waveguide polariton lasers

NEWAVE (ANR project, 2022-2025)

New concepts for waveguide micro- and nano-lasers

  • Project coordinator : Thierry Guillet, Laboratoire Charles Coulomb, Montpellier
  • Project goal : exploring new operation modes for micro- and nano-lasers for integrated photonics, based on polaritonic quantum fluids of light.
  • Partners :
    • L2C, Montpellier
    • CRHEA, Sophia Antipolis
    • C2N, Saclay
    • Institut Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand
  • ANR Collaborative Research Program (PRC),
    • Contract ANR-21-CE24-0019-01
    • within CE24 (Micro et nanotechnologies pour le traitement de l’information et la communication)

The foreseen microlasers are based on polaritonic waveguides (GaN), an "all-in-one" active medium that is very different from usual semiconducting active layers, thus revisiting in depth the laser mechanisms.

They provide a very strong gain, low absorption losses and a self-focusing non-linearity.

The challenge is to control the laser dynamics by patterning photonic crystal waveveguides in order to realise continuous-wave or pulsed laser sources (with an ultra-low energy per pulse), and then a topological laser including an intra-cavity optical isolator.

This project should open new mid-term perspectives for important applications in integrated photonics, topological photonics and photonic quantum simulators.


Publications

Mode-locked waveguide polariton laser, H. Souissi, M. Gromovyi, I. Septembre, V. Develay, C. Brimont, L. Doyennette, E. Cambril, S. Bouchoule, B. Alloing, E. Frayssinet, J. Zúñiga-Pérez, T. (…)

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News

The Newave project has already led to the following achievements : The demonstration of the first GaN-based ridge polariton laser with etched Fabry-Perot cavities, leading to a detailed comparison (…)

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