On-chip beam-steering photonic-crystal lasers

Nature Photonics

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 447-450

  Kurosaka, Yoshitaka ^a,b   Iwahashi, Seita ^a,b   Liang, Yong ^a,b   Sakai, Kyosuke ^a,b   Miyai, Eiji ^a,b,c   Kunishi, Wataru ^a,b,c   Ohnishi, Dai ^a,b,c   Noda, Susumu ^a,b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c ROHM CO LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAM DIRECTION; LASER PRINTERS; LASER PROJECTION DISPLAYS; ON-CHIP INTEGRATION; PHOTONIC BAND STRUCTURES; PHOTONIC-CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; RECTANGULAR LATTICES; RESONANT CONDITION;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE;

EID: 77954407073     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2010.118     Document Type: Article

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