Surface-Emitting Metal Nanocavity Lasers. (16th October 2011)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Hill, Martin T.; Marell, Milan J. H.
• Other Names: Panajotov Krassimir Academic Editor.
• Is Part Of: Advances in optical technologies. Volume 2011(2011)
• Publication Date: 2011-10-16
• Subjects: Optoelectronics -- Periodicals; Optoelectronics; Physics; Periodicals; Electronic journals; 621.36
• DOI: 10.1155/2011/314952
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1687-6393

Abstract

Abstract : There has been considerable interest in metallic nanolasers recently and some forms of these devices constructed from semiconductor pillars can be considered as surface-emitting lasers. We compare two different realized versions of these nanopillar devices, one with a trapped cutoff mode in the pillar, another with a mode that propagates along the pillar. For the cutoff mode devices we introduce a method to improve the output beam characteristics and look at some of the challenges in improving such devices.