Lasing in metallic-coated nanocavities

Nature Photonics

Volumn 1, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 589-594

  Hill, Martin T ^a   Oei, Yok Siang ^a   Smalbrugge, Barry ^a   Zhu, Youcai ^a   De Vries, Tjibbe ^a   Van Veldhoven, Peter J ^a   Van Otten, Frank W M ^a   Eijkemans, Tom J ^a   Turkiewicz, Jarosaw P ^a   De Waardt, Huug ^a   Geluk, Erik Jan ^a   Kwon, Soon Hong ^b   Lee, Yong Hee ^b   Nötzel, Richard ^a   Smit, Meint K ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC CAVITIES; ELECTRICALLY PUMPED; ELECTRICALLY PUMPED LASERS; ELECTRONIC TRANSISTORS; LOW THRESHOLD CURRENT; SEMICONDUCTOR HETEROSTRUCTURE; VERY LARGE-SCALE INTEGRATION; WAVELENGTH OF LIGHT;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

PUMPING (LASER);

EID: 34848880556     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2007.171     Document Type: Article

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