Manufacturable photonic crystal single-mode and fluidic vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1123-1131

  Kasten, Ansas M ^a   Sulkin, Joshua D ^a   Leisher, Paul O ^b   McElfresh, David K ^a,c   Vacar, Dan ^a,c   Choquette, Kent D ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b NLIGHT CORPORATION   (United States)

^c SUN MICROSYSTEMS   (United States)

Author keywords

Microfluidic laser; Photonic crystal (PhC) laser; Single transverse mode operation; Vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL)

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL ATOMIC STRUCTURE; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; FIBER LASERS; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; LASER OPTICS; LASERS; NANOFLUIDICS; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; POWDERS; WASTEWATER;

CONTINUOUS-WAVE OPERATION; FABRICATION PROCESSES; FLUID CHANNELS; LASING WAVELENGTHS; MANUFACTURING PROCESSES; MAXIMUM OUTPUT POWER; MICRO-FLUIDIC; MICROFLUIDIC LASER; MICROFLUIDIC LASERS; OPTICAL AND ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES; OPTICAL LITHOGRAPHY; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL (PHC) LASER; PULSED OPERATIONS; SELF-ALIGNED; SIDE MODE SUPPRESSION RATIOS; SINGLE MODES; SINGLE-MODE OPERATIONS; SINGLE-MODE PHOTONIC CRYSTAL; SINGLE-TRANSVERSE-MODE OPERATION; VERTICAL CAVITY SURFACE-EMITTING LASERS; VERTICAL-CAVITY SURFACE-EMITTING LASER (VCSEL);

SURFACE EMITTING LASERS;

EID: 48949107267     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2008.922912     Document Type: Article

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