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Observation of whispering gallery modes in nonpolar m-plane GaN microdisks

Journal Article · · Applied Physics Letters
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3160550· OSTI ID:21294153
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  1. Department of Materials, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106-5050 (United States)

We have fabricated nonpolar GaN/InGaN microdisks using band-gap selective photoelectrochemical etching. These microdisks have a smoother optical cavity than our previous c-plane microdisks, and they support whispering gallery modes with quality factors as high as 2000 after a focused ion beam treatment to the quantum wells. Because of the lack of a Stokes shift in the quantum wells of these m-plane disks, absorption losses play a much more significant role than in our earlier c-plane microdisks, and the light which couples into the modes is emission from the InGaN post rather than the quantum wells within the cavity.

OSTI ID:
21294153
Journal Information:
Applied Physics Letters, Journal Name: Applied Physics Letters Journal Issue: 25 Vol. 94; ISSN APPLAB; ISSN 0003-6951
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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