Title :
Room-temperature and continuous-wave lasing with nanoscale coaxial cavities
Author :
Khajavikhan, M. ; Simic, A. ; Katz, M. ; Lee, J.H. ; Slutsky, B. ; Mizrahi, A. ; Lomakin, V. ; Fainman, Y.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
Abstract :
High mode confinement and modal sparsity in subwavelength metallic-plasmonic coaxial cavities enable the demonstration of continuous-wave and room-temperature lasing at telecommunication wavelengths in the smallest cavities to date.
Keywords :
laser cavity resonators; nanophotonics; plasmonics; surface emitting lasers; continuous wave lasing; high mode confinement; modal sparsity; nanoscale coaxial cavities; subwavelength metallic plasmonic coaxial cavities; temperature 293 K to 298 K; Cavity resonators; Laser excitation; Laser modes; Metals; Nanoscale devices; Photonics;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2012 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1839-6
