Demonstration of a tunable hybrid laser diode using an electrostatically tunable silicon micromachined fabry-perot interferometer device

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 18-20

  Sidorin, Yakov ^a  

^a Gemfire Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

Butt coupling; Extremely short external cavity; Tunable filters; Tunable semiconductor lasers

Indexed keywords

ELECTROSTATICS; FABRY-PEROT INTERFEROMETERS; LASER TUNING; MICROMACHINING; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON;

EDGE-EMITTING LASERS;

QUANTUM WELL LASERS;

EID: 0032734268     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.736376     Document Type: Article

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