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Coupling lasers using photonic crystals

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Large arrays of vertical laser sources need to emit a coherent output of light. This can be achieved through photonic crystals that mediate the interaction between the lasers in the array.

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Figure 1: Confining light in a photonic crystal VCSEL.
Figure 2: Coupled emission from a VCSEL array.

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