Splitting and lasing of whispering gallery modes in quantum dot micropillars

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 21, 2010, Pages 22578-22592

  Jones, B D ^a   Oxborrow, M ^b   Astratov, V N ^c   Hopkinson, M ^a   Tahraoui, A ^a   Skolnick, M S ^a   Fox, A M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL PHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; INDIUM ARSENIDE; OPTICAL PUMPING; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

GAAS/ALGAAS; HIGH BETA; HIGH QUALITY FACTORS; INAS QUANTUM DOTS; MICRO-PILLARS; MICRODISKS; MODE SPLITTING; MULTIMODE LASING; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; QUANTUM DOT; RESONANT SCATTERING; RESONANT STRUCTURES; SPLITTINGS; WHISPERING GALLERY MODES;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

MICROSPHERE; QUANTUM DOT;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LASER; LIGHT; LUMINESCENCE; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS; RADIATION SCATTERING; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEMICONDUCTOR; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LASERS; LIGHT; LUMINESCENCE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MICROSPHERES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; QUANTUM DOTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SEMICONDUCTORS;

EID: 78049494733     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.022578     Document Type: Article

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