Lasing threshold reduction in grating-tuned cavities

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 24, 1997, Pages 5855-5858

  Zhang, Guangzhi Z ^a   Tokaryk, Dennis W ^a  

^a Photonics Research Ontario   (Canada)

Author keywords

Grating tuned cavities; Lasing threshold reduction; Single mode tunable lasers

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002203105     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.005855     Document Type: Article

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