Coupled-wave analysis for photonic-crystal surface-emitting lasers on air holes with arbitrary sidewalls

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 24, 2011, Pages 24672-24686

  Peng, Chao ^a   Liang, Yong ^a   Sakai, Kyosuke ^a   Iwahashi, Seita ^a   Noda, Susumu ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; LASER THEORY; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; REACTIVE ION ETCHING; SURFACE EMITTING LASERS; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

AIR HOLES; ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS; BAND EDGE; CONSTRUCTIVE INTERFERENCE; COUPLED WAVE THEORY; COUPLED-WAVE ANALYSIS; COUPLING EFFECT; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN; HIGH OUTPUT POWER; IN-PLANE; MODE SELECTIVITY; RADIATION POWER; RADIATIVE CHARACTERISTICS; SYMMETRY PROPERTIES; TOPDOWN; VERTICAL FIELDS;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

AIR; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LASER; LIGHT; MATERIALS; METHODOLOGY; PHOTON; RADIATION SCATTERING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

AIR; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LASERS; LIGHT; MANUFACTURED MATERIALS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHOTONS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 82055186583     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.024672     Document Type: Article

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