Directional micro-cavity lasers with Limaçon-shaped chaotic resonator
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Qi Jie Wang; Changling Yan; Diehl, Laurent; Nanfang Yu; Pflugl, Christian; Belkin, Mikhail A.; Capasso, Federico; Hentschel, Martina; Wiersig, Jan; Edamura, Tadataka; Yamanishi, Masamichi; Kan, Hirofumi
- Source
- 2009 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and 2009 Conference on Quantum electronics and Laser Science Conference Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2009 and 2009 Conference on Quantum electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2009. Conference on. :1-2 May, 2009
- Subject
- Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Photonics and Electrooptics
Chaos
Quantum cascade lasers
Microcavities
Laser modes
Q factor
Laser theory
Optical resonators
Power generation
Threshold current
Stimulated emission
(140.3070) Infrared and far-infrared lasers
(140.3410) Lasers resonators
(140.3948) Microcavity devices
- Language
- ISSN
- 2160-9004
We demonstrate Limaçon-shaped microcavity λ=10 µm lasers with directional emission. Their performance is robust with respect to variations of the deformation factor near its optimum value ε=0.40. Excellent agreement between experiments and theory is achieved.