Cold-cavity thresholds of microdisks with uniform and nonuniform gain: Quasi-3-D modeling with accurate 2-D analysis

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1135-1142

  Smotrova, E I ^a   Nosich, A I ^a   Benson, T M ^a   Sewell, P ^a  

^a A USIKOV INSTITUTE OF RADIO PHYSICS AND ELECTRONICS   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

Cold cavity threshold; Effective index method; Eigenvalue problem; Electromagnetic analysis; Maxwellian formulation; Microdisks; Thin disk semiconductor resonators; Whispering gallery modes

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES;

COLD-CAVITY THRESHOLD; EFFECTIVE-INDEX METHOD; EIGENVALUE PROBLEMS; ELECTROMAGNETIC ANALYSIS; MAXWELLIAN FORMULATION; MICRODISKS; THIN-DISK SEMICONDUCTOR RESONATORS; WHISPERING-GALLERY MODES;

RESONATORS;

EID: 84979833342     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2005.853848     Document Type: Article

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