Micro‐and nanolasers are emerging optoelectronic components with many properties still to
be explored and understood. On the one hand, they make it possible to address …

Nanoscale semiconductor lasers have been developed recently using either metal, metallo-
dielectric, or photonic crystal nanocavities. While the technology of nanolasers is steadily …

Ideal integrated light emitters for optical interconnects should be compact in size, high in
modulation bandwidth, efficient in energy consumption and tunable in frequency …

Measured and calculated results are presented for the emission properties of a new class of
emitters operating in the cavity quantum electrodynamics regime. The structures are based …

The principle of detailed balance states that objects efficiently emitting radiation at a specific
wavelength also efficiently absorb radiation at the same wavelength. This principle presents …

Thresholdless lasing is an outstanding challenge in laser science and is achievable only in
devices having near unity quantum efficiency even when not lasing. Such lasers are …

Exploring the limits of spontaneous emission coupling is not only one of the central goals in
the development of nanolasers, it is also highly relevant regarding future large-scale …

Rate equations for micro-and nanocavity lasers are formulated which take account of the
finite number of emitters, Purcell effects as well as stochastic effects of spontaneous …

The quest for an integrated light source that promises high energy efficiency and a fast
modulation for high-performance photonic circuits has led to the development of room …

Due to the high spontaneous emission coupled into the resonance mode in metallic
nanolasers, there has been a debate concerning the coherence properties of this family of …