Double-heterostructure photonic crystal lasers with lower thresholds and higher slope efficiencies obtained by quantum well intermixing

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 22, 2008, Pages 17342-17347

  Lu, Ling ^a   Mock, Adam ^a   Bagheri, Mahmood ^a   Hwang, Eui Hyun ^a   O'Brien, John ^a   Daniel Dapkus, P ^a  

^a University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; LASER MIRRORS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

DOUBLE HETEROSTRUCTURES; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL LASER; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL MICRO-CAVITY LASERS; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL MIRROR; QUANTUM WELL INTERMIXING; SLOPE EFFICIENCIES; THRESHOLD PUMP POWER;

QUANTUM WELL LASERS;

EID: 55349095811     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.017342     Document Type: Article

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