Electronics Letters · 2000 · 170 citations · 4 references
EngineeringElectrical EngineeringPhysicsOpticsOptoelectronicsPhotonicsLaser Material ProcessingLaser OpticsLaser PhysicsLaser-plasma InteractionsOptical SourcesSemiconductor LasersContinuous-wave LasersEtchingLaser Gain MaterialsLaser ThresholdLow-threshold Current LasersPlasma EtchingThreshold BehaviorThreshold Current Reduction
A threshold current of 40 µA, nearly 1/4 of the previous lowest record, has been obtained in a GaInAsP-InP microdisk injection laser. This decrease was thought to be mainly due to the reduction of disk diameter and symmetric post-claddings by Cl2/Xe inductively coupled plasma etching.
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Whispering-gallery mode microdisk lasers
S. L. McCall, A. F. J. Levi, R. E. Slusher et al. · Applied Physics Letters · 1992 · 1.4K citations