Small-divergence semiconductor lasers by plasmonic collimation

Nature Photonics

Volumn 2, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 564-570

  Yu, Nanfang ^a   Fan, Jonathan ^a   Wang, Qi Jie ^a   Pflügl, Christian ^a   Diehl, Laurent ^a   Edamura, Tadataka ^b   Yamanishi, Masamichi ^b   Kan, Hirofumi ^b   Capasso, Federico ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CENTRAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAM DIVERGENCE; DIVERGENCE ANGLE; EDGE-EMITTING SEMICONDUCTOR; FREE-SPACE COMMUNICATION; LASER POLARIZATION; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SUBWAVELENGTH SLITS; SURFACE PLASMONS;

OPTICAL FIBERS; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

PLASMONS;

EID: 50949123946     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2008.152     Document Type: Article

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