Photonic band-edge micro lasers with quantum dot gain

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 640-648

  Nomura, Masahiro ^a   Iwamoto, Satoshi ^a   Tandaechanurat, Aniwat ^a   Ota, Yasutomo ^a   Kumagai, Naoto ^a   Arakawa, Yasuhiko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOCRYSTALS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; QUANTUM DOT LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

CONTINUOUS WAVE; GROUP VELOCITIES; LASER THRESHOLD; OPTICALLY PUMPED; PHOTONIC BAND EDGE; PHOTONIC BAND EDGE LASERS; TRIANGULAR LATTICE; TWO-DIMENSIONAL PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

QUANTUM WELL LASERS;

EID: 58449093427     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.000640     Document Type: Article

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