Investigation of high-efficiency surface-emitting lasers with blazed grating outcouplers

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 1596-1605

  Hagberg, Mats ^a   Eriksson, Niklas ^a   Larsson, Anders ^a,b  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b IEEE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; ELECTRON BEAM LITHOGRAPHY; ETCHING; LIGHT EMISSION; MIRRORS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; OPTIMIZATION; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); SEMICONDUCTING ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MANUFACTURE; SUBSTRATES;

BLAZED GRATING OUTCOUPLERS; BRAGG REFLECTOR; CHEMICALLY ASSISTED ION BEAM ETCHING; GRATING COUPLED SURFACE EMITTING SEMICONDUCTOR LASER;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 0030242051     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.535364     Document Type: Article

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