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  • Vol. 17, Iss. 7 — Mar. 30, 2009
  • pp: 5439–5445

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Room temperature low-threshold InAs/InP quantum dot single mode photonic crystal microlasers at 1.5 μm using cavity-confined slow light

Frédéric Bordas, Christian Seassal, Emmanuel Dupuy, Philippe Regreny, Michel Gendry, Pierre Viktorovitch, M. J. Steel, and Adel Rahmani  »View Author Affiliations


Optics Express, Vol. 17, Issue 7, pp. 5439-5445 (2009)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.17.005439


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Abstract

We have designed, fabricated, and characterized an InP photonic crystal slab structure that supports a cavity-confined slow-light mode, i.e. a bandgap-confined valence band-edge mode. Three dimensional finite difference in time domain calculations predict that this type of structure can support electromagnetic modes with large quality factors and small mode volumes. Moreover these modes are robust with respect to fabrication imperfections. In this paper, we demonstrate room-temperature laser operation at 1.5 μm of a cavity-confined slow-light mode under pulsed excitation. The gain medium is a single layer of InAs/InP quantum dots. An effective peak pump power threshold of 80 μW is reported.

© 2009 Optical Society of America

OCIS Codes
(140.5960) Lasers and laser optics : Semiconductor lasers
(230.3990) Optical devices : Micro-optical devices
(230.5750) Optical devices : Resonators

ToC Category:
Lasers and Laser Optics

History
Original Manuscript: January 8, 2009
Revised Manuscript: February 20, 2009
Manuscript Accepted: February 22, 2009
Published: March 20, 2009

Citation
Frédéric Bordas, Christian Seassal, Emmanuel Dupuy, Philippe Regreny, Michel Gendry, Pierre Viktorovitch, M. J. Steel, and Adel Rahmani, "Room temperature low-threshold InAs/InP quantum dot single mode photonic crystal microlasers at 1.5 μm using cavity-confined slow light," Opt. Express 17, 5439-5445 (2009)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-17-7-5439


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