Sapphire-bonded photonic Crystal microcavity lasers and their far-field radiation patterns

Author

Cao, J.R. ; Wan Kuang ; Zhi-Jian Wei ; Sang-Jun Choi ; Haixia Yu ; Bagheri, M. ; O´Brien, J.D. ; Dapkus, P.D.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Electrophys., Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Volume

17

Issue

1

fYear

2005

Firstpage

4

Lastpage

6

Abstract

Room-temperature continuous-wave lasing was demonstrated in photonic crystal microcavities with diameters of approximately 3.2 μm. Far-field radiation patterns of these lasers were experimentally measured and compared with numerical simulation predictions.

Keywords

Green´s function methods; finite difference time-domain analysis; microcavity lasers; photonic crystals; sapphire; semiconductor lasers; 20 degC; 3.2 mum; Al/sub 2/O/sub 3/; Green function; InGaAsP-Al/sub 2/O/sub 3/; continuous-wave lasing; far-field radiation patterns; finite-difference time-domain methods; goniometry; laser modes; laser resonators; microcavity laser; photonic crystal laser; photonic crystal microcavities; room-temperature lasing; sapphire-bonded laser; semiconductor lasers; Electron beams; Finite difference methods; Laser modes; Microcavities; Photonic crystals; Semiconductor lasers; Substrates; Surface emitting lasers; Temperature; Time domain analysis; Continuous-wave (CW) lasers; far field; finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) methods; goniometry; green function; laser modes; laser resonators; microcavity; near field; photonic crystal; room temperature; semiconductor lasers;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2004.837245

Filename

1372564