Photonic crystal point-shift nanolasers with and without nanoslots - Design, fabrication, lasing, and sensing characteristics

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1632-1647

  Kita, Shota ^a,b   Nozaki, Kengo ^c   Hachuda, Shoji ^a,b   Watanabe, Hideki ^d   Saito, Yuji ^a,b   Otsuka, Shota ^a,b   Nakada, Takeharu ^e   Arita, Yoshiki ^f   Baba, Toshihiko ^a,b  

^a YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c NTT Basic Research Laboratories   (Japan)

^d SONY CORPORATION   (Japan)

^e CANON INC   (Japan)

^f SHIMADZU CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Biophotonics; GaInAsP; nanolaser; nanoslot (NS); photonic crystal (PC); sensing

Indexed keywords

BIO PHOTONICS; GAINASP; NANOLASER; NANOSLOT (NS); SENSING;

PHOTONICS; SENSORS;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

EID: 83555174524     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2011.2134837     Document Type: Article

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