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Semiconductor nanowire (NW) lasers are a promising technology for the realisation of coherent optical sources with extremely small footprint. To fully realize their potential as building blocks in on-chip photonic systems, scalable methods…
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Laser science has tackled physical limitations to achieve higher power, faster and smaller light sources. The quest for ultra-compact laser that can directly generate coherent optical fields at the nano-scale, far beyond the diffraction…
Nanowire lasers are sought for near-field and on-chip photonic applications as they provide integrable, coherent and monochromatic radiation. A wavelength-scale nanowire acts as both the gain medium and the cavity for the lasing action: the…
Nanowires (NWs) with a unique one-dimensional structure can monolithically integrate high-quality III-V semiconductors onto Si platform, which is highly promising to build lasers for Si photonics. However, the lasing from…
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This review focuses on the investigation and enhancement of the thermoelectric properties of semiconducting nanowires (NWs). NWs are nanostructures with typical diameters between few to hundreds of nm and length of few to several microns,…
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On-chip light sources are critical for the realization of fully integrated photonic circuitry. So far, semiconductor miniaturized lasers have been mainly limited to sizes on the order of a few microns. Further reduction of sizes is…
Integrated opto-electronic devices have the potential to revolutionize information processing, with substantial increase in computing speed, seamless information transfer and reduction of energy consumption. A key missing unit for the…
We present single-mode nanowire (NW) lasers with ultralow threshold in the near-infrared spectral range. To ensure the single-mode operation, the NW diameter and length are reduced specifically to minimize the longitudinal and transverse…
Semiconductor nanowire lasers can produce guided coherent light emission with miniaturized geometry, bringing about new possibility for a variety of applications including nanophotonic circuits, optical sensing, and on-chip and chip-to-chip…
Using nanowires for photodetection constitutes an opportunity to enhance the absorption efficiency while reducing the electrical cross-section of the device. They present interesting features like compatibility with silicon substrates,…