Characteristics of electrically driven two-dimensional photonic crystal lasers

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 41, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1131-1141

  Park, Hong Gyu ^a   Kim, Se Heon ^b   Seo, Min Kyo ^b   Ju, Young Gu ^c   Kim, Sung Bock ^c   Lee, Yong Hee ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^c Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Current injection; Finite difference time domain (FDTD); Microcavity; Photonic band gap; Semiconductor laser; Single photon source; Spontaneous emission factor

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRODYNAMICS; ENERGY GAP; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; OPTICALLY PUMPED LASERS; PHOTONS; PUMPING (LASER); SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MANUFACTURE; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE STRUCTURES; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

CURRENT INJECTION; FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN (FDTD); MICROCAVITY; PHOTONIC BAND GAP; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL LASERS; SINGLE PHOTON SOURCE; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION FACTOR;

SOLID STATE LASERS;

EID: 24744457119     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2005.852800     Document Type: Article

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