High butt-coupling efficiency to single-mode fibers using a 1.55-μm InGaAsP laser integrated with a tapered ridge mode transformer

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1472-1474

  Vusirikala, V ^b   Saini, S S ^b   Bartolo, R E ^b   Whaley, R ^b   Agarwala, S ^c   Dagenais, M ^a,b   Johnson, F G ^c   Stone, D ^c  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c LABORATORY FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Adiabatic mode expanders; Fiber coupling; Semiconductor quantum well lasers

Indexed keywords

EPITAXIAL GROWTH; LASER MODES; OPTICAL FIBERS; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MANUFACTURE; SEMICONDUCTOR GROWTH;

ADIABATIC MODE EXPANDERS; TAPERED RIDGE MODE TRANSFORMERS;

QUANTUM WELL LASERS;

EID: 0031271033     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.634712     Document Type: Article

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