Quasicontinuous wavelength tuning in super-structure-grating (SSG) DBR lasers

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 433-440

  Ishii, Hiroyuki ^b   Tanobe, Hiromasa ^b   Kano, Fumiyoshi ^a,b   Tohmori, Yuichi ^a,b   Kondo, Yasuhiro ^a,b   Yoshikuni, Yuzo ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; ELECTRODES; LIGHT REFLECTION; MIRRORS; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM PHOSPHIDE;

COMPUTER AIDED SIMULATION; CURRENT INJECTION; DISTRIBUTED BRAGG REFLECTORS; PHASE CONTROL CURRENT; SUPER STRUCTURE GRATING;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 0030109728     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.485394     Document Type: Article

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