Temperature sensitivity of 1.54-μm vertical-cavity lasers with an InP-based Bragg reflector

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1839-1845

  Rapp, Stefan ^a,e   Piprek, Joachim ^b,d   Streubel, Klaus ^a,d,e,f   André, Janos ^a,g,h   Wallin, J ^c  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^c ERICSSON RADIO SYSTEMS AB   (Sweden)

^d IEEE   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^f Swed Institute of Microelectronics   (Sweden)

^g Tungsram   (Hungary)

^h Swed Institute for Microelectronis   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Gain control; Laser thermal factors; Laser tuning; Modeling; Semiconductor lasers; Temperature; Thermal variables measurement

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CURRENTS; GAIN CONTROL; LASER TUNING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIRRORS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM PHOSPHIDE; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; TEMPERATURE;

LASER THERMAL FACTORS; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; THRESHOLD CURRENT; VERTICAL CAVITY LASER;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 0031258024     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.631290     Document Type: Article

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