Photonic microstructures as laser mirrors

Optical Engineering

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1143-1148

  Krauss, Thomas F ^a,b   Painter, Oskar ^a   Scherer, Axel ^a   Roberts, John S ^c   De La Rue, Richard M ^b  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bragg mirrors; Low threshold; Photonic bandgap; Photonic microstructures; Semiconductor lasers

Indexed keywords

EID: 0003109503     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.601948     Document Type: Article

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