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Published August 15, 2007 | public
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Spatial modal control of two-dimensional photonic crystal Bragg lasers

Abstract

We investigate the modal losses and field distributions of different order transverse modes supported by the photonic crystal Bragg structure using a transfer matrix method. We find that only the fundamental transverse mode has a single-lobed near field and far field and there exists a trade-off between ensuring lasing in the fundamental transverse mode and reducing the threshold. Employing these design principles, we experimentally demonstrate a large-area, edge-emitting, and single-mode semiconductor photonic crystal Bragg laser with a single-lobed, diffraction-limited far field under continuous wave condition.

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© 2007 Optical Society of America. Received May 17, 2007; revised June 21, 2007; accepted June 27, 2007; posted July 6, 2007 (Doc. ID 83162); published August 2, 2007. L. Zhu thanks O. Painter and R. Perahia for access to their PECVD facility. J. Poon is thanked for fruitful discussions. The work was supported by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (H. Schlossberg) and by DARPA (J. Mangano). This work was also supported by a subaward from the Office of Naval Research under contract N00014-05-M-0254.

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