Theory and simulations of tunable two-mirror and three-mirror resonant-cavity photodetectors with a built-in liquid-crystal layer

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 32, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 1903-1914

  Ren, Xiaomin ^a,b,c   Campbell, Joe C ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^c BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; LASER TUNING; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MIRRORS; OPTIMIZATION; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; RESONANCE; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EFFICIENCY LINEWIDTH JOINT CRITERION; RESONANT CAVITY PHOTODETECTORS;

PHOTODETECTORS;

EID: 0030289055     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.541676     Document Type: Article

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