Three-dimensional coupled-wave analysis for triangular-lattice photonic-crystal surface-emitting asers with transverse-electric polarization

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 565-580

  Liang, Yong ^a   Peng, Chao ^a   Ishizaki, Kenji ^a   Iwahashi, Seita ^a   Sakai, Kyosuke ^a   Tanaka, Yoshinori ^a   Kitamura, Kyoko ^a   Noda, Susumu ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAND STRUCTURE; LASER THEORY; POLARIZATION; RADIATION EFFECTS;

COUPLED WAVE THEORY; COUPLED-WAVE ANALYSIS; EIGEN MODES; EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATION; FAR-FIELD PATTERNS; FIELD INTENSITY; LASER STRUCTURES; LASING MODES; MODAL PROPERTIES; MODE SELECTION; SURFACE RADIATION; THRESHOLD GAIN; TRANSVERSE-ELECTRIC POLARIZATIONS; TRIANGULAR-LATTICE;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 84872694370     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.000565     Document Type: Article

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