Single-angled-facet laser diode for widely tunable external cavity semiconductor lasers with high spectral purity

Electronics Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 16, 1997, Pages 1387-1389

  Heim, P J S ^a   Fan, Z F ^a   Cho, S H ^a   Nam, Keeyol ^a   Dagenais, M ^a   Johnson, F G ^b   Leavitt, R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b LABORATORY FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^c U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

External cavity lasers; Semiconductor junction lasers

Indexed keywords

ANTIREFLECTION COATINGS; BANDWIDTH; LASER TUNING; PERFORMANCE; RELIABILITY;

EXTERNAL CAVITY LASERS; LARGE SIDE MODE SUPPRESSION RATIO;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 0031187538     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:19970911     Document Type: Article

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