Two-Dimensional Photonic Crystal Confined Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1439-1445

  Yokouchi, Noriyuki ^a,b   Danner, Aaron J ^a   Choquette, Kent D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Lateral mode; Photonic crystals; Surface emitting lasers

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL LATTICES; CRYSTALS; ETCHING; FIBER OPTICS; OPTICAL DEVICES; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY; PHOTONS; POINT DEFECTS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

LATERAL MODE; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; VERTICAL CAVITY SURFACE EMITTING LASER (VCSEL);

SOLID STATE LASERS;

EID: 1342324766     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2003.819521     Document Type: Conference Paper

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