Design, fabrication, and performance of infrared and visible vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1810-1823

  Chow, Weng W ^a,d,e,f   Choquette, Kent D ^a,f,g,h,i   Crawford, Mary H ^a,j,k   Lear, Kevin L ^a,b,c   Hadley, G Ronald ^a,c  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b Micro Optical Devices Inc   (United States)

^c IEEE

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^f OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

ⁱ LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^j Center for Interdisciplinary Studies   (United States)

^k BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Author keywords

Optoelectronic devices; Semiconductor device fabrication; Semiconductor lasers

Indexed keywords

HETEROJUNCTIONS; INFRARED RADIATION; LIGHT EMISSION; MIRRORS; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; OXIDATION; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MANUFACTURE;

DISTRIBUTED BRAGG REFLECTORS; SURFACE EMITTING LASERS; VERTICAL CAVITY LASERS;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 0031258734     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.631287     Document Type: Article

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