Optics offers unique opportunities for reducing energy in information processing and
communications while simultaneously resolving the problem of interconnect bandwidth …

Semiconductor lasers, an important subfield of semiconductor photonics, have
fundamentally changed many aspects of our lives and enabled many technologies since …

It is an important challenge to reduce the power consumption and size of lasers, but
progress has been impeded by quantum noise overwhelming the coherent radiation at …

We propose a photonic crystal nanocavity design with self-similar electromagnetic boundary
conditions, achieving ultrasmall mode volume (V eff). The electric energy density of a cavity …

Photonic integration has long been pursued, but remains immature compared with
electronics. Nanophotonics is expected to change this situation. However, despite the recent …

Photonic crystal nanocavities that simultaneously possess small modal volumes and high
quality (Q) factors have opened up novel research areas in photonics during this decade …

The semiconductor lasers in use today rely on various types of cavity, making use of Fresnel
reflection at a cleaved facet, total internal reflection between two different media, Bragg …

The ability to highly localize light with strong electric field enhancement is critical for
enabling higher-efficiency solar cells, light sources, and modulators. While deep …

Abstract Development of Si photonic integrated circuits (PICs) has been impeded due to lack
of efficient Si-based light-emitting sources. Because of their indirect bandgap, bulk Ge and …

The fields of photonic crystals and plasmonics have taken two different approaches to
increasing light–matter interaction. Photonic crystal cavities increase temporal confinement …