Design of high-Q microcavities for proposed two-dimensional electrically pumped photonic crystal lasers

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 117-123

  Chen, Liang ^a,b   Towe, Elias ^a,c,d,e,f  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b RSoft Design Group Inc   (United States)

^c CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Center for Nano enabled Device and Energy Technologies   (United States)

^f AAAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Optical resonator; Photonic crystal; Resonant defect cavity; Semiconductor lasers

Indexed keywords

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; RESONANT DEFECT CAVITY;

FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; OPTICAL PUMPING; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SEMICONDUCTING ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

MICROOPTICS;

EID: 32944461390     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2005.862857     Document Type: Article

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