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Semiconductor lasers are uniquely suited to a variety of applications because they have extremely high efficiency compared to other laser media and can be designed to produce a wide range of ...

Miniaturization has been an everlasting theme in the development of semiconductor lasers. One important breakthrough in this process in recent years is the use of metal-dielectric composite structures ...

Thread-like semiconductor structures called nanowires, so thin that they are effectively one-dimensional, show potential as lasers for applications in computing, communications, and sensing.