Current-induced guiding and beam steering in active semiconductor planar waveguide

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 809-811

  Dong, Xuesong ^a   LiKamWa, Patrick ^a   Loehr, John ^b   Kaspi, Ron ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE CARRIERS; CURRENT DENSITY; INTEGRATED OPTICS; LASER APPLICATIONS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SEMICONDUCTING ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

CHARGE CARRIER PROCESSES; LASER BEAM STEERING; SEMICONDUCTOR PLANAR WAVEGUIDE;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0032669440     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.769715     Document Type: Article

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