Cavity Q, mode volume, and lasing threshold in small diameter AlGaAs microdisks with embedded quantum dots

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1094-1105

  Srinivasan, Kartik ^a   Borselli, Matthew ^a   Painter, Oskar ^a   Stintz, Andreas ^b   Krishna, Sanjay ^b  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LASER BEAMS; OPTICAL FIBERS;

MICRODISK CAVITIES; MODE VOLUME; QUALITY FACTOR; ROOM-TEMPERATURE;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 32644487249     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.001094     Document Type: Article

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