Topological photonic crystal nanowire array laser with edge states

Abstract

A topological photonic crystal InGaAsP/InP core-shell nanowire array laser operating in the 1550 nm wavelength band is proposed and simulated. The structure is composed of an inner topological nontrivial photonic crystal and outer topological trivial photonic crystal. For a nanowire with height of 8 µm, high quality factor of 4.7 × 104 and side-mode suppression ratio of 11 dB are obtained, approximately 32.9 and 5.5 times that of the uniform photonic crystal nanowire array, respectively. Under optical pumping, the topological nanowire array laser exhibits a threshold 27.3% lower than that of the uniform nanowire array laser, due to the smaller nanowire slit width and stronger optical confinement. Moreover, the topological NW laser exhibits high tolerence to manufacturing errors. This work may pave the way for the development of low-threshold single-mode high-robustness nanolasers.