Reconfigurable Optical Elements Based on Single and Coupled Microdisk Resonators with Quantum DOT Active Media

Abstract

We developed a low cost technique for incorporating colloidal quantum dots into active photonic structures with the end goal of realizing bistable lasing structures. To this end we successfully demonstrated (i) incorporation of CdSe QDs into polymer and dielectric host and realization of devices such as active waveguides, microdisk and microring resonators, surface emitting microcavity structures, and distributed feedback (DFB) grating structures, (ii) gain and amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) from a vertical cavity surface emitting structure, (iii) gain and lasing like emission from planar DFB grating structures fabricated using softlithography, (iv) protocol for developing surface emitting and DFB lasers using colloidal QDs as the active medium and (v) theoretical models for coupled/single resonator bistable lasing structures.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 29, 2012
Accession Number
ADA568123

Entities

People

  • Vinod Menon

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Chemical Vapor Deposition
  • Coatings
  • Contracts
  • Distributed Bragg Reflectors
  • Distributed Feedback Lasers
  • Electromagnetic Fields
  • Electron Beam Lithography
  • Electron Microscopes
  • Fabrication
  • Lasers
  • Materials
  • Measurement
  • Optical Properties
  • Quantum Dots
  • Quantum Yields
  • Refractive Index
  • Scanning Electron Microscopes

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Optical Physics and Photonics.
  • Quantum Dot Semiconductor Device Photonics and Graphene Optoelectronic Materials and THz Physics.

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy
  • Quantum Computing