Room temperature continuous-wave lasing in photonic crystal nanocavity

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 13, 2006, Pages 497-504

  Nomura, Masahiro ^a   Iwamoto, Satoshi ^a   Watanabe, Katsuyuki ^a   Kumagai, Naoto ^a   Nakata, Yoshiaki ^a   Ishida, Satomi ^a   Arakawa, Yasuhiko ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; LIGHT EMISSION; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SINGLE CRYSTALS;

CONTINUOUS-WAVE LASER OPERATION; COUPLED RATE EQUATION; SELF-ASSEMBLED QUANTUM DOTS; TRANSPARENT CARRIER DENSITY;

LASER APPLICATIONS;

EID: 33745452452     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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