Photonic crystal heterostructures implemented with vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers

Optics Express

Volumn 12, Issue 20, 2004, Pages 4922-4928

  Guerrero, Gilles ^a   Boiko, Dmitri L ^a   Kapon, Eli ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; PHOTONS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

BLOCH FUNCTIONS; BRAGG REFLECTIONS; QUANTUM CONFINEMENTS; VERTICAL CAVITY SURFACE EMITTING LASERS (VCSEL);

CRYSTALS;

EID: 9144249763     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.12.004922     Document Type: Article

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