Thermal drift in wavelength-switching DFB and DBR lasers

Electronics Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 780-781

  Saavedra, A A ^a   Passy, R ^a   Von Der Weid, J P ^a  

^a PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Distributed Bragg reflector lasers; Distributed feedback lasers; Thermal analysis

Indexed keywords

CATHODE RAY OSCILLOSCOPES; INTERFEROMETERS; INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT MODULATION; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTODETECTORS; SEMICONDUCTING ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

DIGITAL OSCILLOSCOPE; DISTRIBUTED BRAGG REFLECTOR LASERS; MICHELSON INTERFEROMETER; OPTICAL FREQUENCY DEVIATION; RIDGE WAVEGUIDE;

DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASERS;

EID: 0031117029     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:19970495     Document Type: Article

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