Purcell effect in sub-wavelength semiconductor lasers

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 13, 2013, Pages 15603-15617

  Gu, Qing ^a   Slutsky, Boris ^a   Vallini, Felipe ^b   Smalley, Joseph S T ^a   Nezhad, Maziar P ^a,c   Frateschi, Newton C ^b   Fainman, Yeshaiahu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^c RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRODYNAMICS; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; QUANTUM THEORY;

COLLECTIVE EFFECTS; FIELD INTERACTIONS; PASSIVE CAVITY; PURCELL FACTOR; QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS; RESERVOIR MODELING; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION RATES; SUB-WAVELENGTH;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 84879899627     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.015603     Document Type: Article

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