Publication Date:
2003-11-01
Description:
We combine photonic and electronic band structure engineering to create a surface-emitting quantum cascade microcavity laser. A high-index contrast two-dimensional photonic crystal is used to form a micro-resonator that simultaneously provides feedback for laser action and diffracts light vertically from the surface of the semiconductor surface. A top metallic contact allows electrical current injection and provides vertical optical confinement through a bound surface plasmon wave. The miniaturization and tailorable emission properties of this design are potentially important for sensing applications, while electrical pumping can allow new studies of photonic crystal and surface plasmon structures in nonlinear and near-field optics.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Colombelli, Raffaele -- Srinivasan, Kartik -- Troccoli, Mariano -- Painter, Oskar -- Gmachl, Claire F -- Tennant, Donald M -- Sergent, A Michael -- Sivco, Deborah L -- Cho, Alfred Y -- Capasso, Federico -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2003 Nov 21;302(5649):1374-7. Epub 2003 Oct 30.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, NJ 07974, USA. colombel@ief.u-psud.fr〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14593186" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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