Complex-coupled photonic crystal THz lasers with independent loss and refractive index modulation

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 10707-10713

  Zhang, Hua ^a   Scalari, Giacomo ^b   Beck, Mattias ^b   Faist, Jérôme ^b   Houdré, Romuald ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; REFRACTOMETERS;

BAND-EDGE LASERS; IN-PLANE; LIGHT EXTRACTION; NEAR INFRARED; PLASMON WAVEGUIDE; POLARIZED EMISSIONS; QUANTUM CASCADES; REFRACTIVE INDEX MODULATION; SURFACE EMISSIONS; THZ LASERS; VERTICAL EMISSION;

LIGHT REFRACTION;

EID: 79957592247     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.010707     Document Type: Article

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