High Q values and polarised emission from microcavity pillars with elliptical cross-section

Author

Timpson, J.A. ; Lam, S. ; Sanvitto, D. ; Whittaker, D.M. ; Vinck, H. ; Daraei, A. ; Guimaraes, P.S.S. ; Skolnick, M.S. ; Fox, A.M. ; Hu, C. ; Ho, Y.-L. ; Gibson, R. ; Rarity, J.G. ; Tahraoui, A. ; Hopkinson, M. ; Fry, P.W. ; Pelligrini, S. ; Gordon, K.J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Phys. & Astron., Univ. of Sheffield, Sheffield

fYear

2006

fDate

21-26 May 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

Benefits of elliptical micropillars are reported including polarisation control of dot emission; and increased quality factors as one of the loss mechanisms found in circular micropillars is removed.

Keywords

Q-factor; micro-optics; microcavities; optical control; optical losses; photoluminescence; quantum dots; circular micropillars; dot emission; elliptical cross-section; elliptical micropillars; loss mechanisms; microcavity pillars; microphotoluminescence; photon sources; polarisation control; polarised emission; quality factor; Finite difference methods; Microcavities; Mirrors; Optical polarization; Physics; Q factor; Q measurement; Quantum computing; Quantum dots; Time domain analysis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2006 and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2006. Conference on

Conference_Location

Long Beach, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-55752-813-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-55752-813-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.2006.4629178

Filename

4629178