We demonstrate a THz quantum-cascade vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting laser (QC-VECSEL) based on a disordered amplifying metasurface. One-dimensional disorder is introduced into the metasurface by pseudo-randomly varying the width of uniformly spaced ridge antennas. A mid-sized QC-VECSEL was characterized as a function of its external cavity length. In general, short cavities exhibited more modes: as many as seven were observed. Typical beam patterns were overall circular, albeit with several hot spots. We hypothesize that extending the disorder to two dimensions and increasing the metasurface size should increase the mode number by at least a factor of 10.
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