We review principles and trends in the use of semiconductor nanowires as gain media for
stimulated emission and lasing. Semiconductor nanowires have recently been widely …

Semiconductor nanowire lasers are single-element structures that can act as both gain
material and cavity for optical lasing. They have typical dimensions on the order of an optical …

Nanolasers hold promise for applications including integrated photonics, on-chip optical
interconnects and optical sensing. Key to the realization of current cavity designs is the use …

Semiconductor nanowire (NW) lasers are highly promising for making new-generation
coherent light sources with the advantages of ultra-small size, high efficiency, easy …

Semiconductor nanowires have been used in a variety of passive and active optoelectronic
devices including waveguides, photodetectors, solar cells, light-emitting diodes (LEDs) …

Coaxial quantum wells (QWs) are ideal candidates for nanowire (NW) lasers, providing
strong carrier confinement and allowing close matching of the cavity mode and gain …

GaAs-based nanowire (NW) lasers working in the infrared region is critical in integrated
optoelectronics. In the past few decades, the field of NW lasers has developed rapidly …

A low-threshold nanolaser with all three dimensions at the subwavelength scale is proposed
and investigated. The nanolaser is constructed based on an asymmetric hybrid plasmonic …

Near-infrared nanowire lasers are promising as ultrasmall, low-consumption light emitters in
on-chip optical communications and computing systems. Here, we report on a room …

Recent developments in chemical processes to prepare single-crystalline nanowire (NW)
superlattices (SLs) have discovered a range of unique nanophotonic properties. In …