Electrically pumped sub-wavelength metallodielectric pedestal pillar lasers

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 22, 2011, Pages 21524-21531

  Lee, Jin Hyoung ^a,b   Khajavikhan, Mercedeh ^a   Simic, Aleksandar ^a   Gu, Qing ^a   Bondarenko, Olesya ^a   Slutsky, Boris ^a   Nezhad, Maziar P ^a   Fainman, Yeshaiahu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ORACLE CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASING; CORE RADIUS; ELECTRICALLY PUMPED; LASER OPERATIONS; METALLODIELECTRIC; PEDESTAL STRUCTURE; QUALITY FACTORS; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SUB-WAVELENGTH; SUBWAVELENGTH SCALE; THRESHOLD CURRENTS; THRESHOLD GAIN;

PUMPING (LASER);

EID: 80054926942     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.021524     Document Type: Article

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