Abstract

While semiconductor nanowires have emerged as ultra-small, low-cost and efficient light-sources, their integration with high quality resonators is expected to turn them into flexible coherent sources. This step is however very challenging [1,2]. Surface plasmon resonator are easier to integrate, yet their efficiency is dramatically reduced by strong non-radiative decay. Very recently, single nanowires have been placed within a photonic crystal resonator using an Atomic Force Microscopy instrument [3]. Despite the breakthrough in the field of nano-sized light sources, this procedure remains problematic in the perspective of large scale integration as wires are manually positioned one by one.

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