Purcell effect in the inductor-capacitor laser

Christoph Walther; Giacomo Scalari; Mattias Beck; Jérôme Faist

doi:10.1364/OL.36.002623

Purcell effect in the inductor-capacitor laser

Opt Lett. 2011 Jul 15;36(14):2623-5. doi: 10.1364/OL.36.002623.

Authors

Christoph Walther¹, Giacomo Scalari, Mattias Beck, Jérôme Faist

Affiliation

¹ Institute for Quantum Electronics, ETH Zurich, Wolfgang-Pauli-Strasse 16, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland.

PMID: 21765488
DOI: 10.1364/OL.36.002623

Abstract

The recently demonstrated inductor-capacitor (LC) laser has a strongly subwavelength mode volume. In this Letter we investigate the Purcell effect in the LC laser resonator. An average Purcell factor of 17 is computed for the LC laser. The laser rate equations are formulated and solved for the LC laser. Evidence of a large Purcell factor in agreement with the theoretical one is obtained through comparison of the threshold and the emission characteristics of the LC laser with the rate equations.