Mode Selection and Single-mode Lasing by Active Transformation Optics

Abstract: Using the correspondence between (saturated) nonlinear and (unsaturated) linear dielectric constants, we propose a simple and systematic method to achieve selective excitation of lasing modes that would have been dwarfed by more dominant ones of lower thresholds. The key element of this method is incorporating the control of modal interactions into the spatial pump profile, and it is most valuable in the presence of spatially and spectrally overlapping modes, where it would be difficult to achieve selective excitation otherwise.