Laser action in nanowires: Observation of the transition from amplified spontaneous emission to laser oscillation

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Zimmler, Mariano A ^a   Bao, Jiming ^a   Capasso, Federico ^a   Müller, Sven ^b   Ronning, Carsten ^c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC WIRE; FIBER LASERS; NANOWIRES; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION; ZINC; ZINC OXIDE;

AMPLIFIED SPONTANEOUS EMISSIONS; DETECTION GEOMETRIES; DIRECTIONAL EMISSIONS; LASER ACTIONS; LASER OSCILLATIONS; LINEAR REGIMES; OPTICAL POWER; OPTICALLY PUMPED; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDES; OUTPUT POWER; PUMP POWER; ROOM TEMPERATURES; SINGLE NANOWIRES; SUPERLINEAR; ZNO;

PUMPING (LASER);

EID: 51849168992     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2965797     Document Type: Article

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