Experimental analysis and modeling of buried waveguides fabricated by quantum-well intermixing

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1354-1363

  Haysom, Joan E ^a,b   Delâge, André ^a,d   He, Jian Jun ^a   Koteles, Emil S ^a   Poole, Philip J ^a   Feng, Yan ^a   Goldberg, Richard D ^c   Mitchell, Ian V ^c   Charbonneau, Sylvain ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER MODES; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; MASKS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM PHOSPHIDE; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MANUFACTURE; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE STRUCTURES; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

BEAM PROPAGATION; BURIED WAVEGUIDES; LASER STRUCTURE; MODE EXCITATION; QUANTUM WELL INTERMIXING; TRANSVERSE ELECTRIC MODE; TRANSVERSE MAGNETIC MODE;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0032590961     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.784598     Document Type: Article

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