The metal-clad semiconductor nanoring laser and its scaling properties

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 3218-3225

  Kim, Min W ^a   Ku, Pei Cheng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METALS; MONOLITHIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; NANORINGS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PHOTONICS;

DESIGN PARAMETERS; EMISSION WAVELENGTH; IN-PLANE; LASER STRUCTURES; METAL-CLAD; MONOLITHIC INTEGRATION; PHOTONIC INTEGRATIONS; RING DIAMETER; RING WIDTH; SCALING PROPERTIES; SEMICONDUCTOR NANORINGS;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 79951664914     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.003218     Document Type: Article

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