Dynamics of band-edge photonic crystal lasers

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 3165-3172

  Raineri, Fabrice ^a,b   Yacomotti, Alejandro M ^a   Karle, Timothy J ^a   Hostein, Richard ^a   Braive, Remy ^a   Beveratos, Alexios ^a   Sagnes, Isabelle ^a   Raj, Rama ^a  

^a UNIV PARIS SUD   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER OPTICS;

BAND EDGE; HIGH RESOLUTION; INGAAS/INP; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL LASER; TEMPORAL CHARACTERISTICS; TURN-ON TIME; UP-CONVERSION;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

EID: 61549108961     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.003165     Document Type: Article

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