Lasing in a metal-clad microring resonator
Abstract
Metal cladding was experimentally demonstrated to be a feasible method to further scale down the size of a microring laser. Shrinking the physical dimensions of semiconductor microring resonators has been difficult due to a large waveguide bending loss. We experimentally show that light can be better confined into a much tighter space by using the plasmonic metal structure, thereby enabling miniaturization of a microring laser.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Pub Defense Publication
- Publication Date
- Mar 28, 2011
- Source ID
- 10.1063/1.3573818
Entities
People
- Min W. Kim
- P.-c. Ku
Organizations
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
- National Science Foundation
- University of Michigan