On-chip integrated exceptionalsurface microlaser | Science Advances

The on-chip integrated visible microlaser is a core unit of high-speed visible-light communication with huge bandwidth resources , which needs robustness against fabrication errors, compressible linewidth, reducible threshold, and in-plane emission . However, until now, it has been a great challenge to meet these requirements simultaneously. Here, we report a scalable strategy to realize a robust on-chip integrated visible microlaser with further improved lasing performances enabled by the increased orders ( n ) of exceptional surfaces, and experimentally verify the strategy by demonstrating the performances of a second-order exceptional surface–tailored microlaser. We further prove the potential application of the strategy by discussing an exceptional surface–tailored topological microlaser with unique performances. This work lays a foundation for further development of on-chip integrated high-speed visible-light communication and processing systems, provides a platform for the fundamental study of non-Hermitian photonics, and proposes a feasible method of joint research for non-Hermitian photonics with nonlinear optics and topological photonics.