Lasing from active optomechanical resonators

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Czerniuk, T ^a   Bruggemann C ^a   Tepper, J ^a   Brodbeck, S ^b   Schneider, C ^b   Kamp, M ^b,c   Hofling S ^b,c   Glavin, B A ^d   Yakovlev, D R ^a,e   Akimov, A V ^e,f   Bayer, M ^a,e  

^a TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^d INSTITUTE OF SEMICONDUCTOR PHYSICS   (Ukraine)

^e IOFFE INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER; MECHANICS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENT; REFLECTIVITY; RESONANCE; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; WAVELENGTH;

ARTICLE; DISPERSION; ELECTRON; MODULATION; OPTOMECHANICAL RESONATOR; PHONON; PHOTON; SEMICONDUCTOR;

EID: 84904191649     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5038     Document Type: Article

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