Design of widely tunable semiconductor lasers and the concept of binary superimposed gratings (BSG's)

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 729-741

  Avrutsky, Ivan A ^b,c   Ellis, Dave S ^b   Tager, Alex ^b   Anis, Hanan ^d   Xu, Jimmy M ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NORTEL NETWORKS   (Canada)

Author keywords

Distributed Bragg reflector lasers; Gratings; Laser tuning; Wavelength division multiplexing

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000907176     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.663458     Document Type: Article

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