Achievement of ultra-low threshold excitation power (8 nW) in a nearly-single quantum dot nanocavity laser

2008 Conference on Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO/QELS

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Nomura, Masahiro ^a   Ota, Yasutomo ^b   Kumagai, Naoto ^a   Iwamoto, Satoshi ^a,c   Arakawa, Yasuhiko ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON OPTICS; LASER EXCITATION; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

ELECTRO-OPTICS; LASER SCIENCE; NANOCAVITY LASERS; SINGLE QUANTUM DOTS;

LASERS;

EID: 51349120657     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CLEO.2008.4551794     Document Type: Conference Paper

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