• DocumentCode
    2227810
  • Title

    Optical gain and green/red vertical cavity surface emitting lasing from cdse-based colloidal nanocrystal quantum dot thin films

  • Author

    Dang, Cuong ; Nurmikko, Arto ; Breen, Craig ; Steckel, Jonathan S. ; Coe-Sullivan, Seth

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Eng., Brown Univ., Providence, RI, USA
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    1-6 May 2011
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate robust excitonic gain from colloidal close-packed, CdSe-based nanocrystal quantum dot thin films at record low threshold excitation energy of 90 μJ/cm2 for amplified spontaneous emission. The optical gain is employed in pulsed optically pumped quantum dot vertical cavity surface emitting lasers in the green and the red, respectively.
  • Keywords
    cadmium compounds; nanostructured materials; quantum dots; semiconductor thin films; superradiance; surface emitting lasers; CdSe; amplified spontaneous emission; colloidal nanocrystal quantum dot thin films; excitonic gain; optical gain; vertical cavity surface emitting lasing; Cavity resonators; Green products; Nanocrystals; Optical films; Optical pumping; Stimulated emission;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2011 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Baltimore, MD
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-1223-4
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5950137