In-plane coupling of light from inP-B ased photonic crystal band-edge lasers into single-mode waveguides

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 279-286

  Hattori, Haroldo Takashi ^a   McKerracher, Ian ^a   Tan, Hark Hoe ^a   Jagadish, Chennupati ^a   De La Rue, Richard Michael ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Integrated optics; Photonic crystal (phc) devices; Semiconductor lasers and couplers; Waveguides

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE AND PASSIVE DEVICE; COUPLED CAVITY; COUPLING EFFICIENCY; EPITAXIAL STRUCTURE; IN-PLANE COUPLING OF LIGHT; INP; LASER CONFIGURATION; MULTIWAVELENGTH; NANO-TAPERS; SINGLE MODE WAVEGUIDES;

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; INTEGRATED OPTICS; LASERS; LIGHT; OPTICAL MATERIALS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; PHOTONIC DEVICES; PHOTONICS; WAVEGUIDES;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 35648942458     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2006.890402     Document Type: Article

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