• DocumentCode
    1663687
  • Title

    Direction-controllable, single-lobed photonic crystal lasers for beam steering functionality

  • Author

    Kurosaka, Yoshitaka ; Watanabe, Akiyoshi ; Sugiyama, Takahiro ; Hirose, Kazuyoshi ; Noda, Susumu

  • Author_Institution
    Mater. Res. Group, Hamamatsu Photonics K.K., Hamamatsu, Japan
  • fYear
    2012
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate direction-controllable, single-lobed photonic-crystal lasers. The obtained beam direction angles range from 10° to 50° with a narrow divergence angle. This is an important step for realizing single-lobed beam-steering lasers.
  • Keywords
    beam steering; optical control; photonic crystals; semiconductor lasers; beam direction angles; direction-controllable single-lobed photonic crystal lasers; divergence angle; single-lobed beam-steering lasers; Crystals; Laser beams; Laser theory; Lattices; Photonics; Surface emitting lasers;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2012 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-1839-6
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6326028