Room temperature lasing of InAs/GaAs quantum dots in the whispering gallery modes of a silica microsphere

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 16, 2007, Pages 10052-10060

  Steiner, Sébastien ^a   Hare, Jean ^a   Lefèvre Seguin, Valérie ^a   Gérard, Jean Michel ^b  

^a ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^b CEA GRENOBLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROSPHERES; SELF ASSEMBLY; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SILICA; THERMAL EFFECTS;

Q-SPOILING; SELF-ASSEMBLED QUANTUM DOTS; WHISPERING GALLERY MODES;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 34547736018     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.010052     Document Type: Article

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39. The small increase of the coupling efficiency on each side of the central drop indicates the crossing of critical coupling for prim-sphere interaction, initially over-coupled.