Room temperature continuous wave operation and controlled spontaneous emission in ultrasmall photonic crystal nanolaser

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 7506-7514

  Nozaki, Kengo ^a   Kita, Shota ^a   Baba, Toshihiko ^a  

^a YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; HEAT RESISTANCE; LASER RESONATORS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION; THERMAL EFFECTS;

NANOLASERS; RATE EQUATION ANALYSIS;

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS;

EID: 34250174546     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.007506     Document Type: Article

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