Tunable semiconductor laser with liquid crystal pixel mirror in grating-loaded external cavity

Electronics Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 17, 1999, Pages 1472-1473

  Pan, Ci Ling ^a   Tsai, Shang Huang ^a   Pan, Ru Pin ^a   Sheu, Chia Reng ^a   Wang, S C ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; LASER TUNING; LIGHT REFLECTION; MIRRORS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; OPTICAL GLASS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

LIQUID CRYSTAL PIXEL MIRROR (LCPM); SIDEMODE SUPPRESSION RATIO (SMSR);

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 0032630992     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:19990960     Document Type: Article

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