Lasing wavelength changes due to degradation in buried heterostructure distributed Bragg reflector lasers

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 918-923

  Mawatari, Hiroyasu ^a   Fukuda, Mitsuo ^a   Kano, Fumiyoshi ^a   Tohmori, Yuichi ^a   Yoshikuni, Yuzo ^a   Toba, Hiromu ^a  

^a NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE CARRIERS; CURRENT DENSITY; HETEROJUNCTIONS; LASER APPLICATIONS; MIRRORS; PHASE CONTROL; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

CARRIER LIFETIME; DISTRIBUTED BRAGG REFLECTOR; FABRY-PEROT LASERS; WAVELENGTH STABILITY;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 0032637561     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/50.762912     Document Type: Article

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