Second-Harmonic Generation in GaAs Photonic Crystal Cavities in (111)B and (001) Crystal Orientations

ACS Photonics

Volumn 1, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 516-523

  Buckley, Sonia ^a   Radulaski, Marina ^a   Petykiewicz, Jan ^a   Lagoudakis, Konstantinos G ^a   Kang, Ju Hyung ^b   Brongersma, Mark ^b,c   Biermann, Klaus ^c   Vučković, Jelena ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

^c PAUL DRUDE INSTITUT FÜR FESTKÖRPERELEKTRONIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

nanophotonics; nonlinear optics; photonic crystals; semiconductor microcavities

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; ENERGY GAP; GALLIUM ARSENIDE; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; NANOPHOTONICS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL RESONATORS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM; TWO PHOTON PROCESSES;

FAR-FIELD PATTERNS; FUNDAMENTAL RESONANCE; INPLANE ROTATION; MAXIMUM EFFICIENCY; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL CAVITIES; SECOND HARMONICS; SEMICONDUCTOR MICROCAVITIES; TWO PHOTON ABSORPTION;

HARMONIC GENERATION;

EID: 84908030902     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23304022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ph500054u     Document Type: Article

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