Microlasers based on effective index confined slow light modes in photonic crystal waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 6331-6339

  Gardin, Samuele ^a,b   Bordas, Frederic ^a   Letartre, Xavier ^a   Seassal, Christian ^a   Rahmani, Adel ^c   Bozio, Renato ^b   Viktorovitch, Pierre ^a  

^a ECOLE CENTRALE DE LYON   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER OPTICS; LIGHT VELOCITY; MICROOPTICS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATES; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

MICROLASER DEVICES; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL WAVEGUIDES; ROOM-TEMPERATURE LASER OPERATION;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE);

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; LASER; LIGHT; PHOTON; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPECTROSCOPY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; LASERS; LIGHT; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; PHOTONS; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATE; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EID: 43049095385     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.006331     Document Type: Article

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