Record performance of electrical injection sub-wavelength metallic-cavity semiconductor lasers at room temperature

Opt Express. 2013 Feb 25;21(4):4728-33. doi: 10.1364/OE.21.004728.

Abstract

We demonstrate a continuous wave (CW) sub-wavelength metallic-cavity semiconductor laser with electrical injection at room temperature (RT). Our metal-cavity laser with a cavity volume of 0.67λ3 (λ = 1591 nm) shows a linewidth of 0.5 nm at RT, which corresponds to a Q-value of 3182 compared to 235 of the cavity Q, the highest Q under lasing condition for RT CW operation of any sub-wavelength metallic-cavity laser. Such record performance provides convincing evidences of the feasibility of RT CW sub-wavelength metallic-cavity lasers, thus opening a wide range of practical possibilities of novel nanophotonic devices based on metal-semiconductor structures.

Publication types

  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Electromagnetic Fields
  • Equipment Design
  • Equipment Failure Analysis
  • Lasers, Semiconductor*
  • Metals / chemistry*
  • Temperature

Substances

  • Metals