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Circularly-Polarized Light Emission from Semiconductor Planar Chiral Photonic Crystal
We proposed and demonstrated a scheme of surface emitting circularly
polarized light source by introducing strong imbalance between left- and
right-circularly polarized vacuum fields in an on-waveguide chiral grating
structure. We observed circularly polarized spontaneous emission from InAs
quantum dots embedded in the wave guide region of a GaAs-based structure.
Obtained degree of polarization reaches as large as 25% at room temperature.
Numerical calculation visualizes spatial profiles of the modification of vacuum
field modes inside the structure with strong circular anisotropy.Comment: REVTeX4.1, 6pages, 3figure
Zero-cell photonic crystal nanocavity laser with quantum dot gain
We demonstrate laser oscillation in a hexagonal-lattice photonic crystal
nanocavity using an InGaAs quantum dot gain material by optical pumping at 5 K.
The cavity comprises a defect created by shifting several air holes in a
two-dimensional photonic crystal slab structure without removing any air holes
to achieve both small mode volume and a high cavity quality factor. The
measured cavity quality factors and estimated mode volume for the nanocavity
are ~33,000 and ~0.004 um^3. The laser threshold is compared between the
zero-cell and L3-type nanocavity lasers, and the zero-cell nanolasers are found
to have small thresholds of about one-third of the L3-type nanolasers. This
result suggests that a higher Purcell factor of the zero-cell nanolaser is
reflected as a smaller laser threshold.Comment: 6 pages, 3 figure
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