2010年7月
On-chip beam-steering photonic-crystal lasers
NATURE PHOTONICS
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- 巻
- 4
- 号
- 7
- 開始ページ
- 447
- 終了ページ
- 450
- 記述言語
- 英語
- 掲載種別
- 研究論文(学術雑誌)
- DOI
- 10.1038/nphoton.2010.118
- 出版者・発行元
- NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
The development of semiconductor lasers with on-chip controllability of the beam direction is important for a wide range of applications, including mobile laser projection displays(1), advanced laser printers(2) and chip-to-chip optical communication(3). Here, we report a novel concept to realize such beam-steering lasers using photonic crystals. Our idea is based on the generation of artificial lasing band edges in the photonic band structure, which determine the resonant condition and output beam direction(4-12). We show that the lasing band edge can be tuned by using a composite photonic-crystal structure composed of both square and rectangular lattices, and by varying their relative lattice constants. We demonstrate that lasers based on such composite photonic-crystal structures are able to emit beams in a range of directions that can be dynamically controlled by on-chip integration.
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- ID情報
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- DOI : 10.1038/nphoton.2010.118
- ISSN : 1749-4885
- Web of Science ID : WOS:000279331800013