Session 5

[ICNN6-04] Carrier Leakage in Electrically-Driven Photonic Crystal Membrane
Lasers

*Mathias Marchal¹, Nikolaos Chatzaras¹, Evangelos Dimopoulos¹, Andrey Marchevsky¹, Aurimas Sakanas¹, Marco Saldutti¹, Kasper Roed Spiegelhauer¹, Yi Yu¹, Kresten Yvind¹, Meng Xiong¹, Jesper Mørk¹ (1. Denmark Technical University)

We developed a 2D model of carrier transport in photonic cyrstal lasers that predicts the presence of unconventional leakage paths. This explains experimental observations
of low injection efficiencies and enhanced spontaneous emission at doping interfaces