Five-fold reduction of lasing threshold near the first Γl-pseudogap of ZnO inverse opals

Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Scharrer, Michael ^a   Noh, Heeso ^a,b   Wu, Xiaohua ^a   Anderson, Mark A ^a   Yamilov, Alexey ^c   Cao, Hui ^a,b   Chang, Robert P H ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Yale University   (United States)

^c MISSOURI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

3D photonic crystals; Opal; Random laser; ZnO

Indexed keywords

3D PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; FREQUENCY RANGES; FREQUENCY SHIFT; GAIN PEAKS; GAIN SPECTRA; INVERSE OPAL; LASING MODES; LASING THRESHOLD; PHOTONIC PSEUDOGAPS; PSEUDO-GAP; RANDOM LASERS; RANDOM LASING; ROOM TEMPERATURE LASING; ULTRA-VIOLET; ZNO; NEAR ULTRAVIOLET; OPAL;

BISMUTH ALLOYS; LASER BEAMS; SILICATE MINERALS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; ZINC OXIDE; II-VI SEMICONDUCTORS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; OXIDE MINERALS;

EID: 75849165117     PISSN: 14644258     EISSN: 17413567     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/2040-8978/12/2/024007     Document Type: Article

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