Distinctive signature of indium gallium nitride quantum dot lasing in microdisk cavities

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 39, 2014, Pages 14042-14046

  Woolf, Alexander ^a   Puchtler, Tim ^b   Aharonovich, Igor ^c   Zhu, Tongtong ^b   Niu, Nan ^a   Wang, Danqing ^a   Oliver, Rachel ^b   Hu, Evelyn L ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

III nitride lasers; Microdisk lasing; Nanophotonic devices; Quantum dot lasers

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907587758     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1415464111     Document Type: Article

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