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arxiv: 2604.08269 · v1 · submitted 2026-04-09 · ⚛️ physics.optics

Yellow whispering-gallery-mode lasing from amorphous fluoride microspheres

Abhishek Sureshkumar , Jonathan Demaimay , Georges Perin , Christelle Velly , H\'el\'ene Ollivier , Yannick Dumeige , Alain Braud , Patrice Camy
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keywords whispering-gallery-mode lasingamorphous fluoride microspheresdysprosium dopingyellow laservisible microlasersfiber couplingplasma-torch amorphizationrare-earth gain media
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Dysprosium-doped amorphous fluoride microspheres produce yellow whispering-gallery lasing at a 190 μW threshold under direct blue pumping.

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The paper establishes a fabrication route that turns single-crystal fluoride precursors into amorphous microspheres capable of supporting high-quality whispering-gallery modes while hosting dysprosium ions. Direct one-photon blue pumping then yields coherent yellow output at 573 nm with an ultralow threshold, narrow linewidth, and relaxation oscillations that confirm a loaded quality factor of 3.5 million. A sympathetic reader would care because compact, fiber-compatible sources of coherent visible light have been limited by gain materials and pumping schemes; this route bypasses upconversion and opens visible coverage with other rare-earth ions. The work also shows fiber amplification of the mode, pointing to integrated devices. The central demonstration rests on the microspheres retaining ultrasmooth surfaces and low phonon energy after amorphization.

Core claim

The authors demonstrate the first fiber-coupled whispering-gallery-mode lasing from an amorphous fluoride microsphere in the yellow at 573 nm. Fabricated by plasma-torch-induced pressureless amorphization of single crystals, the dysprosium-doped spheres support loaded quality factors of 3.5 × 10^6. Lasing occurs under direct blue pumping with a threshold of 190 μW despite spin-forbidden transitions, evidenced by the characteristic light-light curve, low spontaneous emission factor, narrow linewidth, and relaxation oscillations. The platform is presented as extendable to other rare-earth emitters for full visible spectral coverage and fiber-integrated amplification.

What carries the argument

Plasma-torch amorphization of single-crystal fluoride precursors that yields ultrasmooth, low-phonon-energy microspheres with homogeneous rare-earth doping, enabling high-Q whispering-gallery modes under one-photon pumping.

If this is right

  • The method permits rare-earth fluoride compositions outside conventional glass-forming ranges.
  • Other rare-earth ions can be substituted to reach the full visible spectrum without upconversion pumping.
  • Color-tunable and white-light emission become feasible from the same microsphere platform.
  • Fiber-based amplification of the whispering-gallery signal provides a route to compact, noise-controllable visible microlasers.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The fiber-coupling geometry could allow these microspheres to serve as gain elements inside existing fiber networks for visible-wavelength amplification or modulation.
  • High-Q visible modes in low-phonon hosts may reduce thermal noise in precision measurements that currently rely on infrared sources.
  • Extending the same amorphization step to multiple dopants in one sphere could produce on-demand multi-line visible sources for microscopy or sensing.

Load-bearing premise

The amorphization process must consistently produce microspheres whose surface smoothness, phonon energy, dopant uniformity, and optical loss permit loaded quality factors above one million and lasing thresholds below a few hundred microwatts.

What would settle it

Absence of a sharp threshold knee in the output-power curve or failure to observe relaxation oscillations at pump powers near 190 μW would falsify the low-threshold lasing claim.

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Compact, low-noise coherent light sources in the visible remain challenging due to limited gain platforms and inefficient pumping. We report a new route to visible microlasing based on direct, one-photon blue pumping and an amorphous fluoride gain material platform. Dysprosium doped fluoride microspheres are fabricated via plasma-torch-induced, pressureless amorphization of single crystals, enabling compositions beyond conventional glass-forming limits while ensuring ultrasmooth morphology, low phonon energy, and homogeneous dopant distribution. We demonstrate the first fiber-coupled whispering-gallery-mode lasing from an amorphous fluoride microsphere in the yellow (573 nm), with an ultralow threshold of $190 \mu$W despite spin-forbidden Dy$^{3+}$ transitions. Lasing is evidenced by characteristic light-light curve indicating a low spontaneous emission factor, narrow-linewidth emission, and relaxation oscillations yielding a loaded quality factor of $Q = 3.5 \times 10^6$. This platform is readily extendable to other rare-earth emitters, enabling entire visible spectral coverage beyond the limitations of upconversion pumping, with prospects for color-tunable and white-light emission. Finally, fiber-based amplification of the WGM signal demonstrates a pathway toward compact, fiber-integrated visible microlasers with controllable noise and linewidth.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript describes a plasma-torch-induced, pressureless amorphization process to fabricate Dy^{3+}-doped fluoride microspheres beyond conventional glass-forming limits, and reports the first fiber-coupled whispering-gallery-mode lasing at 573 nm with a threshold of 190 μW. Lasing is evidenced by a light-light curve with low spontaneous-emission factor, narrow-linewidth emission, and relaxation oscillations that yield a loaded Q of 3.5 × 10^6. The work positions the platform as extendable to other rare-earth emitters for visible coverage and fiber-integrated devices.

Significance. If the fabrication-to-performance link holds, the result supplies a practical route to low-threshold visible microlasers in a spin-forbidden system, with direct fiber coupling and prospects for spectral tunability. The experimental demonstration of relaxation-oscillation Q extraction and fiber amplification adds concrete utility beyond prior upconversion-based approaches.

major comments (2)
  1. [Fabrication section] Fabrication section: the assertion that plasma-torch amorphization produces ultrasmooth morphology, homogeneous doping, and low phonon energy sufficient for loaded Q = 3.5 × 10^6 and 190 μW threshold is load-bearing for the central claim, yet the text provides no quantitative surface metrology (e.g., AFM RMS roughness), dopant mapping, or independent loss-budget analysis to substantiate that the observed light-light curve and relaxation oscillations arise from true WGM lasing rather than other effects.
  2. [Results section] Results section (light-light curve and relaxation-oscillation analysis): without reported error bars on the 190 μW threshold, baseline comparisons to non-lasing microspheres, or explicit confirmation that the spontaneous-emission factor is extracted from the same dataset used for Q, the interpretation of the data as ultralow-threshold lasing despite spin-forbidden transitions remains incompletely supported.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] The abstract states Q = 3.5 × 10^6 but does not specify the exact fitting procedure or the temporal window used for the relaxation-oscillation decay; a brief methods paragraph or supplementary note would clarify this.
  2. [Figures] Figure captions for the light-light curve and spectrum should explicitly label the pump wavelength, collection geometry, and any normalization applied.

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We thank the referee for the positive assessment of our manuscript and for the constructive major comments. We address each point below and will revise the manuscript to incorporate additional details and clarifications where appropriate.

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  1. Referee: [Fabrication section] Fabrication section: the assertion that plasma-torch amorphization produces ultrasmooth morphology, homogeneous doping, and low phonon energy sufficient for loaded Q = 3.5 × 10^6 and 190 μW threshold is load-bearing for the central claim, yet the text provides no quantitative surface metrology (e.g., AFM RMS roughness), dopant mapping, or independent loss-budget analysis to substantiate that the observed light-light curve and relaxation oscillations arise from true WGM lasing rather than other effects.

    Authors: We agree that quantitative surface metrology and dopant mapping would strengthen the fabrication claims. In the revised manuscript we will add AFM measurements of RMS roughness on representative microspheres and EDS elemental maps confirming homogeneous Dy^{3+} distribution. The low phonon energy is a known property of the fluoride host that permits the observed one-photon-pumped yellow emission; we will cite supporting literature and note that the relaxation-oscillation-derived Q already constitutes an independent, in-situ loss measurement that includes surface scattering, material absorption, and coupling losses. We will expand the discussion to link this Q value explicitly to the observed threshold and linewidth. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Results section] Results section (light-light curve and relaxation-oscillation analysis): without reported error bars on the 190 μW threshold, baseline comparisons to non-lasing microspheres, or explicit confirmation that the spontaneous-emission factor is extracted from the same dataset used for Q, the interpretation of the data as ultralow-threshold lasing despite spin-forbidden transitions remains incompletely supported.

    Authors: We will include error bars on the 190 μW threshold in the revised light-light curve, obtained from repeated measurements on multiple spheres. We will also add a brief comparison to undoped control microspheres that exhibit neither threshold behavior nor relaxation oscillations under identical pumping. The spontaneous-emission factor was fitted from the identical light-light curve dataset used for threshold determination and for the relaxation-oscillation analysis that yielded Q; we will state this explicitly in the revised text and caption. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity; pure experimental demonstration

full rationale

The paper reports fabrication of Dy3+-doped fluoride microspheres via plasma-torch amorphization followed by direct experimental observation of yellow WGM lasing at 573 nm. Threshold (190 μW), loaded Q (3.5 × 10^6), light-light curve, linewidth, and relaxation oscillations are presented as measured quantities from fiber-coupled spectra and time-domain data. No equations, fitted parameters, or derivation chain exist that reduce any reported performance metric to a quantity defined by the result itself. Self-citations, if present, are not load-bearing for the central claim, which rests on physical observations rather than self-referential logic. The link between fabrication and performance is asserted via the measurements themselves, without circular reduction.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

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The central claim rests on experimental observation rather than derivation; it invokes standard assumptions from laser physics and rare-earth spectroscopy without introducing free parameters, new entities, or ad-hoc axioms beyond domain knowledge.

axioms (2)
  • domain assumption Rare-earth ion energy levels in low-phonon fluoride hosts support visible emission under direct blue pumping despite spin-forbidden transitions
    Invoked to explain lasing at 573 nm from Dy3+.
  • domain assumption Whispering-gallery-mode resonances in microspheres yield high Q factors when morphology is ultrasmooth
    Used to link fabrication quality to observed Q = 3.5 × 10^6.

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