Low divergence semiconductor lasers by plasmonic collimation
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Capasso, Federico; Yu, Nanfang; Fan, Jonathan; Wang, Qi Jie; Pflugl, Christian; Diehl, Laurent; Edamura, Tadataka; Yamanishi, Masamichi; Kan, Hirofumi
- Source
- LEOS 2008 - 21st Annual Meeting of the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2008. LEOS 2008. 21st Annual Meeting of the IEEE. :6-7 Nov, 2008
- Subject
- Photonics and Electrooptics
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Semiconductor lasers
Plasmons
Collimators
Quantum cascade lasers
Laser modes
Optical design
Gratings
Laser theory
Laser beams
Optical films
- Language
- ISSN
- 1092-8081
We have demonstrate that surface plasmons can be effectively employed for beam shaping of edge-emitting semiconductor lasers to greatly reduce their large intrinsic beam divergence by more than one order of magnitude [1].