Quantum Cascade Surface-Emitting Photonic Crystal Laser

Science

Volumn 302, Issue 5649, 2003, Pages 1374-1377

  Colombelli, Raffaele ^a,e   Srinivasan, Kartik ^b   Troccoli, Mariano ^c   Painter, Oskar ^b   Gmachl, Claire F ^a,f   Tennant, Donald M ^a,d   Sergent, A Michael ^a   Sivco, Deborah L ^a   Cho, Alfred Y ^a   Capasso, Federico ^c  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d New Jersey Nanotechnology Consortium   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^f Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAND STRUCTURE; CRYSTALS; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

MICROCAVITY LASER; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

QUANTUM OPTICS;

METAL;

LASER; PHYSICS;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ENGINEERING; CONTRAST; CRYSTAL; DIFFRACTION; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTRICAL PARAMETERS; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; LASER; OPTICS; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SEMICONDUCTOR; SENSOR;

EID: 0345306760     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1090561     Document Type: Article

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