Loss-induced confinement in photonic crystal vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 762-768

  Siriani, Dominic F ^a   Leisher, Paul O ^b,c   Choquette, Kent D ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c NLIGHT CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed Bragg reflector lasers; Laser modes; Semiconductor lasers

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE DESIGN; DISTRIBUTED BRAGG REFLECTOR LASERS; EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; MODAL LOSS; MODE SPLITTING; SINGLE-MODE PHOTONIC CRYSTAL; SLOPE EFFICIENCIES; TRANSVERSE OPTICAL; VERTICAL-CAVITY SURFACE EMITTING LASER; WAVEGUIDE MODELS;

BRAGG CELLS; CANTILEVER BEAMS; CRYSTAL ATOMIC STRUCTURE; DISTRIBUTED BRAGG REFLECTORS; HELMHOLTZ EQUATION; HETEROJUNCTIONS; LASER MODES; LASER OPTICS; LASERS; MICROOPTICS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; REFLECTION; SURFACE EMITTING LASERS;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 67249147369     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2009.2013124     Document Type: Article

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