Amplified Spontaneous Emission Spectroscopy in Strained Quantum-Well Lasers

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 1995, Pages 1100-1107

  Chang, Chih Sheng ^a   Chuang, Shun Lien ^a   Minch, Jeffrey R ^a   Fang, Wei Chiao W ^a   Chen, Y K ^b   Tanbun Ek, T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAND STRUCTURE; CALCULATIONS; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

AMPLIFIED SPONTANEOUS EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; ELECTRONIC BAND STRUCTURE; FORWARD VOLTAGE BIAS; HAKKI-PAOLI METHOD; INCREMENTAL CURRENT; INDEX PROFILES; LINEWIDTH ENHANCEMENT FACTOR; OPTICAL CONSTANT; OPTICAL GAIN; SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURES;

QUANTUM WELL LASERS;

EID: 0029536459     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: 15584542     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/2944.488687     Document Type: Article

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