Room-temperature continuous-wave lasing in GaNInGaN microdisks

Nature Photonics

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 61-64

  Tamboli, Adele C ^a   Haberer, Elaine D ^a   Sharma, Rajat ^a   Lee, Kwan H ^b   Nakamura, Shuji ^a   Hu, Evelyn L ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASING; HIGH QUALITY; LOW THRESHOLDS; MICRODISK LASER; MICRODISKS; OPTICAL MEASUREMENT; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; ROOM TEMPERATURE;

GALLIUM NITRIDE; LASERS; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING;

LASER MIRRORS;

EID: 34247537560     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2006.52     Document Type: Article

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