Design of ultrasmall plasmonic coaxial lasers on Si

Journal of Nanophotonics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Lim, Kim Peng ^a   Lee, Chee Wei ^a   Singh, Gurpreet ^a   Wang, Qian ^a  

^a DATA STORAGE INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

nanolaser; plasmonics; semiconductor laser

Indexed keywords

BODIES OF REVOLUTION; PLASMONICS; Q FACTOR MEASUREMENT; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SILICA; SILICON OXIDES; SUBSTRATES; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

EFFECTIVE REFRACTIVE INDEX; METAL SEMICONDUCTOR METAL; NANO LASERS; NANOPHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; RESONANT WAVELENGTHS; STRUCTURAL DIMENSIONS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL BODY; TRANSPARENT MATERIAL;

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD;

EID: 84890648779     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19342608     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.JNP.7.070598     Document Type: Article

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