Planar Photonic Crystal Nanolasers (II): Low-threshold Quantum Dot Lasers

IEICE Transactions on Electronics

Volumn E87-C, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 300-307

  Yoshie, Tomoyuki ^a   Shchekin, Oleg B ^b   Chen, Hao ^b   Deppe, Dennis G ^b   Schere, Axel ^a  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

Coupled cavity; Low threshold laser; Photonic crystal; Single quantum dot laser; Square lattice; Strong coupling

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; CAVITY RESONATORS; CRYSTAL LATTICES; CRYSTALS; EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL PUMPING; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PHOTONS; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MODELS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

COUPLED CAVITIES; LOW-THRESHOLD LASER; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; SINGLE QUANTUM DOT LASERS;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 1642330304     PISSN: 09168524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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