Electrically driven single-cell photonic crystal laser

Hong Gyu Park, Se Heon Kim, Soon Hong Kwon, Young Gu Ju, Jin Kyu Yang, Jong Hwa Baek, Sung Bock Kim, Yong Hee Lee

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Abstract

We report the experimental demonstration of an electrically driven, single-mode, low threshold current (∼260 μA) photonic band gap laser operating at room temperature. The electrical current pulse is injected through a sub-micrometer-sized semiconductor wire at the center of the mode with minimal degradation of the quality factor. The actual mode of interest operates in a nondegenerate monopole mode, as evidenced through the comparison of the measurement with the computation based on the actual fabricated structural parameters. As a small step toward a thresholdless laser or a single photon source, this wavelength-size photonic crystal laser may be of interest to photonic crystals, cavity quantum electrodynamics, and quantum information communities.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1444-1447
Number of pages4
JournalScience
Volume305
Issue number5689
DOIs
StatePublished - 3 Sep 2004

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