State-of-the-art: Widely tunable lasers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3001, Issue , 1997, Pages 382-393

  Rigole, Pierre Jean ^a   Nilsson, Stefan ^a   Berglind, E ^a   Blumenthal, Daniel J ^b   Shell, M ^b  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

InP; Laser; Monolithic; Switching; Widely tunable

Indexed keywords

BRAGG CELLS; CARRIER LIFETIME; CIVIL AVIATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; ERBIUM; FIBER AMPLIFIERS; FIBER LASERS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; LASER OPTICS; LASER TUNING; LASERS; MULTIPLEXING; MULTIPLEXING EQUIPMENT; REFLECTOMETERS; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS; SUGAR (SUCROSE); SWITCHING; TUNING; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; DOPING (ADDITIVES); LIGHT REFLECTION; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FILTERS; PERFORMANCE; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

CURRENT CONTROL (CC); DISTRIBUTED BRAGG REFLECTOR (DBR) LASERS; ERBIUM-DOPED FIBER (EDF); INP; LASER; LASER SOURCES; MONOLITHIC; OUTPUT POWERS; SIDE-MODE SUPPRESSION; SSG DBR LASERS; WAVELENGTH COVERAGE; WAVELENGTH SWITCHING; WIDELY TUNABLE; WIDELY TUNABLE LASERS; MONOLITHIC ELECTRICALLY TUNABLE LASERS; SUPER STRUCTURE GRATINGS;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASERS;

EID: 0031338258     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.273809     Document Type: Conference Paper

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