Title :
Control of lasing modes in semiconductor microdisks by shaping pump profile
Author :
Liew, Seng Fatt ; Redding, Brandon ; Solomon, Glenn S. ; Hui Cao
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Appl. Phys., Yale Univ., New Haven, CT, USA
Abstract :
We demonstrate experimentally that by optimizing the spatial pump profile we can select different modes to lase in a semiconductor microdisk cavity, and suppress lasing in all other modes by increasing their thresholds.
Keywords :
III-V semiconductors; gallium arsenide; indium compounds; laser modes; microdisc lasers; optical pumping; semiconductor lasers; GaAs-InAs; lasing modes; lasing thresholds; optical pump beam; quantum dots; semiconductor microdisk cavity; spatial pump profile shaping; Laser modes; Optical device fabrication; Optical pumping; Pump lasers; Semiconductor lasers;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2014 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
