III-Nitride nanowires lasers

Nanowires have gained interest as coherent, nanoscale light sources. Using a top-down approach, high quality III-nitride-based nanowires with controllable height, pitch and diameter have been realized. Here, the fabrication, and lasing characteristics of GaN-based and GaN/InGaN based nanowires fabricated by this approach will be presented, along with schemes for single optical mode selection, polarization control, beam shaping, and wavelength tuning.