Room temperature continuous wave operation of single-mode, edge-emitting photonic crystal Bragg lasers

Author

Zhu, Lin ; Sun, Xiankai ; DeRose, Guy A. ; Scherer, Axel ; Yariv, Amnon

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., California Inst. of Technol., Pasadena, CA

fYear

2008

fDate

4-9 May 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

We report the first room temperature CW operation of two dimensional single-mode edge-emitting photonic crystal Bragg lasers. Single-mode lasing with single-lobed, diffraction limited far-fields is obtained for 100mum wide and 550 mum long on-chip devices.

Keywords

III-V semiconductors; distributed feedback lasers; gallium arsenide; indium compounds; laser beams; laser modes; light diffraction; photonic crystals; semiconductor lasers; Bragg lasers; InGaAs; continuous wave operation; diffraction limited far-fields; distributed feedback lasers; edge-emitting lasers; on-chip devices; photonic crystal lasers; room temperature operation; semiconductor lasers; single-lobed far-fields; single-mode lasers; size 100 mum; size 550 mum; temperature 293 K to 298 K; Distributed feedback devices; Laser feedback; Laser modes; Laser tuning; Lattices; Optical reflection; Photonic crystals; Scanning electron microscopy; Semiconductor lasers; Temperature; (140.5960) Semiconductor lasers; (250.5300) Photonic integrated circuits;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

iet

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2008 and 2008 Conference on Quantum Electronics and Laser Science. CLEO/QELS 2008. Conference on

Conference_Location

San Jose, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-55752-859-9

Type

conf

Filename

4572214