Title :
Novel metal-cavity nanolasers at room temperature
Author :
Lu, Chien-Yao ; Chuang, Shun Lien ; Germann, Tim D. ; Mutig, Alex ; Bimberg, Dieter
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
Abstract :
We propose and implement room-temperature substrate-free metal-cavity surface-emitting nanolasers, which are platform-insensitive, with microwatt CW output, of circular beam shape, better in thermal management, and capable of dense integration due to metal shielding.
Keywords :
III-V semiconductors; gallium arsenide; indium compounds; integrated optics; laser cavity resonators; nanophotonics; quantum well lasers; surface emitting lasers; In0.21Ga0.79As-GaAs0.88P0.12; circular beam shape; dense integration; microwatt CW output; quantum wells; substrate-free metal-cavity surface-emitting nanolasers; temperature 293 K to 298 K; thermal management; Cavity resonators; Couplings; Distributed Bragg reflectors; Metals; Optical device fabrication; Optical waveguides; Substrates;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2011 Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1223-4
