The pursuit of compact lasers with low thresholds has imposed strict requirements on tight
light confinements with minimized radiation losses. Bound states in the continuum (BICs) …

A key obstacle for all quantum information science and engineering platforms is their lack of
scalability. The discovery of emergent quantum phenomena and their applications in active …

The threshold properties of photonic crystal quantum dot lasers operating in the slow-light
regime are investigated experimentally and theoretically. Measurements show that, in …

We suggest a novel class of active nanoantennas based on diamond nanoparticles with
embedded nitrogen-vacancy centres coupled to Mie resonances of nanoparticles. We …

Buried multiple-quantum-well (MQW) 2D photonic crystal cavities (PhC) achieve low non-
radiative recombination and high carrier confinement thus making them highly efficient …

The development of a thresholdless laser operating above room temperature (RT) is key for
the future replacement of electronics with photonic integrated circuits, enabling an increase …

We present a powerful computational approach to simulate the threshold behavior of
photonic-crystal quantum-dot (QD) lasers. Using a finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) …

We report a high-Q design for a semiconductor-based two-dimensional zero-cell photonic
crystal (PhC) nanocavity with a small mode volume. The optimization of displacements of …

We demonstrate spontaneous emission rate enhancement and saturable absorption of
cadmium selenide colloidal quantum dots coupled to a nanobeam photonic crystal cavity …

We demonstrate triggered single-photon emission from a novel system of site-controlled
quantum dots (QDs), fabricated by exploiting the hydrogen-assisted, spatially selective …