Room temperature continuous wave lasing in InAs quantum-dot microdisks with air cladding

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1615-1620

  Ide, Toshihide ^a   Baba, Toshihiko ^a   Tatebayashi, Jun ^b   Iwamoto, Satoshi ^b   Nakaoka, Toshihiro ^b   Arakawa, Yasuhiko ^b  

^a YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; LITHOGRAPHY; MICROSTRUCTURE; OPTICAL PUMPING; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION;

ABSORPTION EFFICIENCY; AIR CLADDING; MICROSTRUCTURE DEVICES; OPTICAL CONFINEMENT STRUCTURE;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 17444383866     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.001615     Document Type: Article

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