Broadly tunable external cavity laser diodes with staggered thickness multiple quantum wells

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 155-157

  Gingrich, H S ^b   Chumney, D R ^c,d   Sun, S Z ^b   Hersee, S D ^c   Lester, L F ^a,c   Brueck, S R J ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^c University of New Mexico   (United States)

^d INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Laser tuning; Quantum well devices; Quantum well lasers; Semiconductor lasers; Tunable circuits devices; Tunable semiconductor lasers

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM COMPOUNDS;

CARRIER LIFETIME; CODIRECTIONAL COUPLER LASERS; DISTRIBUTED BRAGG REFLECTOR (DBR) LASERS; TUNABLE EXTERNAL CAVITY LASER DIODES;

QUANTUM WELL LASERS;

EID: 0031076763     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.553070     Document Type: Article

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