Photonic crystal microcavity lasers

John D. O'Brien, M. Bagheri, L. Lu, T. Yang, M. H. Shih, A. Mock, P. D. Dapkus

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Abstract

Photonic crystal lasers will be discussed with particular emphasis on devices capable of room temperature CW operation and devices with quantum dot active regions. CW lasers have -3 dB modulation bandwidths over 10 GHz with approximately 30 dB of side mode suppression. An analysis of the modulation response and the linewidth of microcavity lasers suggests that gain nonlinearities and microcavity effects may be playing an important role in these device characteristics. The photonic crystal lasers with quantum dot active regions have absorbed powers at threshold of under 15 μW. The presentation will also describe approaches to increasing the output power obtained from these lasers illustrated with data showing 100 μW of pulsed output power from a microcavity photonic crystal laser

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of 2008 10th Anniversary International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks, ICTON
Pages120-123
Number of pages4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2008
Event2008 10th Anniversary International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks, ICTON - Athens, Greece
Duration: Jun 22 2008Jun 26 2008

Publication series

NameProceedings of 2008 10th Anniversary International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks, ICTON
Volume2

Conference

Conference2008 10th Anniversary International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks, ICTON
Country/TerritoryGreece
CityAthens
Period06/22/0806/26/08

Keywords

  • Gain compression
  • Integrated optics
  • Intensity modulation
  • Quantum dot

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