Photonic-crystal microcavity laser with site- controlled quantum-wire active medium

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 20, 2009, Pages 18178-18183

  Atlasov, Kirill A ^a   Calic, Milan ^c   Karlsson, Karl Fredrik ^a,b   Gallo, Pascal ^c   Rudra, Alok ^a   Dwir, Benjamin ^a   Kapon, Eli ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROCAVITIES; NANOWIRES; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

ABSORBED POWER; ACTIVE MEDIUM; AVERAGE POWER; COUPLING COEFFICIENT; LASER RESPONSE; LINEWIDTH NARROWING; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL MICRO-CAVITY LASERS; SINGLE MODE LASING;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WIRES;

QUANTUM DOT;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; DIODE LASER; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS, SEMICONDUCTOR; MINIATURIZATION; QUANTUM DOTS; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 70349671751     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.018178     Document Type: Article

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