Title :
Photonic crystal nanocavity lasers and modulators
Author :
Jelena Vučković;Gary Shambat;Jan Petykiewicz;Bryan Ellis;Arka Majumdar;Tomas Sarmiento;Marie Mayer;James Harris;Eugene Haller
Author_Institution :
Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Abstract :
We have demonstrated electrically driven photonic crystal nanocavity lasers, LEDs and modulators with record low operation powers (e.g., lasing threshold of 180nA and sub-fJ/bit modulator operation), and with the modulation speeds exceeding 10GHz.
Keywords :
"Photonic crystals","Modulation","Optical resonators","Optical interconnections","Junctions","Doping","Energy consumption"
Conference_Titel :
Photonics Conference (IPC), 2012 IEEE
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0731-5
DOI :
10.1109/IPCon.2012.6358691
