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Fabrication And Characterization Of Photonic Crystal Slow Light Waveguides And Cavities
Published on: November 30, 2012
Double-heterostructure photonic crystal lasers with lower thresholds and higher slope efficiencies obtained by
Ling Lu1, Adam Mock, Mahmood Bagheri
1Department of Electrical Engineering - Electrophysics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089, USA. lingl@usc.edu
Abstract:
In order to reduce the optical absorption loss, an array of double-heterostructure photonic crystal microcavity lasers was fabricated in which much of the photonic crystal mirror region was disordered by quantum well intermixing. In characterizing these devices, we obtained more than a factor of two increase in slope efficiencies and more than 20% reduction in threshold pump powers compared to devices that were not intermixed.
