Ridge waveguide sampled grating DBR lasers with 22-nm quasi-continuous tuning range

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1211-1213

  Mason, Beck ^a   Fish, Greg A ^a   DenBaars, Steven P ^a   Coldren, Larry A ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; LASER TUNING; METALLORGANIC CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; MIRRORS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHASE CONTROL; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MANUFACTURE; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE STRUCTURES; SEMICONDUCTOR GROWTH; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

CARRIER INJECTION; DISTRIBUTED BRAGG REFLECTOR (DBR) LASERS; RIDGE WAVEGUIDES;

DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASERS;

EID: 0032162676     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.705593     Document Type: Article

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