Greater than 500-mW CW Kink-Free Single Transverse-Mode Operation of Weakly Index Guided Buried-Stripe Type 980-nm Laser Diodes

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 1304-1306

  Horie, Hideyoshi ^a   Arai, Nobuhiro ^a   Mitsuishi, Yoshitaka ^a   Komuro, Naoyuki ^a   Kaneda, Hideaki ^a   Gotoh, Hideki ^a   Usami, Masashi ^b   Matsushima, Yuichi ^b  

^a MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b KDDI R AND D LABORATORIES INC   (Japan)

Author keywords

980 nm pump lasers; Co axial type module; Kink free operation; Optical fiber amplifier; Semiconductor lasers; Single transverse mode

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000102004     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.883811     Document Type: Article

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