Highly Uniform Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers Integrated with Microlens Arrays

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 459-461

  Eitel, S ^a   Fancey, S J ^c   Gauggel, H P ^a   Gulden, K H ^a   Bachtold W ^b   Taghizadeh, M R ^c  

^a CSEM   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Microlens arrays; Optical interconnections; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000916015     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.841252     Document Type: Article

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