Subwavelength semiconductor lasers for dense chip-scale integration

Advances in Optics and Photonics

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-56

  Gu, Qing ^a   Smalley, Joseph S T ^a   Nezhad, Maziar P ^a   Simic, Aleksandar ^a   Lee, Jin Hyoung ^a   Katz, Michael ^a   Bondarenko, Olesya ^a   Slutsky, Boris ^a   Mizrahi, Amit ^a   Lomakin, Vitaliy ^a   Fainman, Yeshaiahu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT SOURCES; OPTICAL PUMPING; OPTICALLY PUMPED LASERS; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

ELECTRICAL PUMPING; FUTURE RESEARCH DIRECTIONS; METALLODIELECTRIC; NANOSCALE SEMICONDUCTORS; PHOTONIC CIRCUITS; RECENT RESEARCHES; RESOLUTION LIMITS; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION RATES;

LASER THEORY;

EID: 84897102603     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19438206     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AOP.6.000001     Document Type: Article

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