Two-dimensional surface emitting photonic crystal laser with hybrid triangular-graphite structure

Abstract

We present laser emission of a compact surface-emitting micro laser, optical pumped and operating at 1.5 microm at room temperature. A two-dimensional photonic crystal lattice conformed in a hybrid triangular-graphite configuration is designed for vertical emission. The structures have been fabricated in an InP slab, including four InAsP quantum wells as active layer, on the top of a Si substrate SiO(2) wafer bonded. Laser emission with thresholds around 70 microW and quality factors (Qs) up to 12000 have been measured. The Bloch mode selected for the emission keeps a high Q (>or= 2 x 10(5)) around the Gamma point for a wide range of in-plane values k(||) <or= 0.1(2 pi/a) which is related to peculiar properties of the hybrid lattice.