Unidirectional vertical emission from photonic crystal nanolasers
Abstract
Here, we emphasize the importance of using a bottom reflector to achieve unidirectional vertical emission from an ultra-small light emitter. Specifically, we have considered a photonic crystal slab nanocavity laser placed in the vicinity of a perfect mirror. By choosing near one-wavelength distance between the bottom reflector and the cavity, over 80% of photons generated inside the laser cavity can funnel into a small divergence angle of ±30°. It is also interesting to observe that the natural radiation rate (∼1/Q factor) of the nanocavity mode can be modified by varying the gap size, which is analogous to the famous cavity quantum electrodynamics effect for a point dipole source placed near a perfect mirror. A simple, comprehensive plane wave interference model is presented to explain the observed over six-fold vertical emission enhancement. Furthermore, we propose some of the very practical nanolaser designs based on a metal bonding technology, which may enable continuous current injection operation at room-temperature.
Additional Information
© 2009 IEEE. This work was supported in part by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (FA9550-04-1-0434), the Army Research Office (W911NF-07-1-0277), and the National Science Foundation (EEC-0812072). We gratefully acknowledge critical support and infrastructure provided for this work by the Kavli Nanoscience Institute at Caltech.Attached Files
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- FA9550-04-1-0434
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
- W911NF-07-1-0277
- Army Research Office (ARO)
- EEC-0812072
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- Kavli Nanoscience Institute
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