Design and analysis of double-fused 1.55-μm vertical-cavity lasers

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 1369-1383

  Babic, Dubravko I ^a,b,e,f,g,h   Piprek, Joachim ^a,c,i,j,k   Streubel, Klaus ^a,d   Mirin, R P ^b   Margalit, N M ^b   Mars, D E ^e   Bowers, John E ^a,b   Hu, Evelyn L ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b University of California   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^d ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^e HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^h Avantek Inc   (United States)

ⁱ HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^j Fernschlektronik   (Germany)

^k Materials Science Program   (United States)

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Author keywords

Fusion banding; Long wavelength vertical cavity lasers

Indexed keywords

CURRENT DENSITY; CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS; ELECTRIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; LASER MODES; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MIRRORS; SEMICONDUCTING ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE STRUCTURES;

DOUBLE FUSED VERTICAL CAVITY LASERS; LONG WAVELENGTH VERTICAL CAVITY LASERS;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 0031213268     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.605560     Document Type: Article

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