High-power laser light source for near-field optics and its application to high-density optical data storage

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 75, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1515-1517

  Partovi, Afshin ^a   Peale, David ^a,b   Wuttig, Matthias ^a,c   Murray, Cherry A ^a   Zydzik, George ^a   Hopkins, Leslie ^a   Baldwin, Kirk ^a   Hobson, William S ^a   Wynn, James ^a   Lopata, John ^a   Dhar, Lisa ^a   Chichester, Rob ^a   Yeh, James H J ^a,d  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b Phase Metrics Inc   (United States)

^c RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d Science Based Industrial Park   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH POWER LASERS; LASER RECORDING; OPTICAL DATA STORAGE; OPTICS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

NEAR FIELD OPTICS; REWRITABLE RECORDING; VERY SMALL APERTURE LASERS (VSAL);

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 0032606850     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.124740     Document Type: Article

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