Lasing on whispering gallery modes was excited by optical pumping in single zinc oxide microwires fabricated by a simple carbothermal evaporation process. The experimentally observed laser modes agree precisely with the predicted energetic positions obtained from a plane wave model. Systematic diameter dependent measurements have been carried out for diameters of the microwires between 3 and . The investigated microlasers are found to have a lasing threshold of about at .
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