Mid-IR vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 147-156

  Vurgaftman, Igor ^b,d,e   Meyer, Jerry R ^a,b,f,g   Ram Mohan, L Ramdas ^{a,c,h,i,j,k,l,m,n,o}  

^a IEEE

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^g BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

ⁱ PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^j FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^k Free University of Berlin ^*

^l UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^m UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

ⁿ NEC LABORATORIES AMERICA   (United States)

^o AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY   (United States)

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Author keywords

Cavity resonators; CW lasers; Quantum well lasers; Semiconductor device modeling; Semiconductor lasers; Surface emitting lasers

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CAVITY RESONATORS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MIRRORS; QUANTUM WELL LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MODELS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE STRUCTURES;

DISTRIBUTED BRAGG REFLECTORS; OPTICAL MATRIX ELEMENTS; VERTICAL CAVITY SURFACE EMITTING LASERS;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 0031699668     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.655018     Document Type: Article

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