Continuously tunable micromachined vertical cavity surface emitting laser with 18nm wavelength range

Electronics Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 330-332

  Larson, M C ^a   Massengale, A R ^a   Harris, J S ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Micromachining; Semiconductor junction lasers; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers

Indexed keywords

CAVITY RESONATORS; CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS; MIRRORS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SEMICONDUCTING ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; TUNING;

ALUMINUM ARSENIDE; BRAGG REFLECTOR; CURRENT BLOCKING LAYER; DEFORMABLE MEMBRANE MIRROR; LOWER THRESHOLD CURRENT; MODE SUPPRESSION RATIO; TUNING VOLTAGE; VERTICAL CAVITY SURFACE EMITTING LASERS; WAVELENGTH TUNING;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 0030086347     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:19960276     Document Type: Article

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