Room temperature continuous wave operation of single-mode, edge-emitting photonic crystal Bragg lasers

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 502-506

  Zhu, Lin ^a   Sun, Xiankai ^a   DeRose, Guy A ^a   Scherer, Axel ^a   Yariv, Amnon ^a  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION; LATTICE CONSTANTS; LIGHT EMISSION; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; ELECTRON OPTICS; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS;

LASING WAVELENGTH; ON-CHIP DEVICES; ROOM TEMPERATURE; CW OPERATION; DIFFRACTION LIMITED; FAR-FIELD; ROOM TEMPERATURE CONTINUOUS WAVE OPERATION; SINGLE MODE; SINGLE MODE LASING; TWO-DIMENSIONAL;

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

ARTICLE; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; ILLUMINATION; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; METHODOLOGY; PHOTON; REFRACTOMETRY; TEMPERATURE;

CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS; LIGHTING; PHOTONS; REFRACTOMETRY; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 38549177951     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.000502     Document Type: Article

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