High-power VCSEL's: single devices and densely packed 2-D-arrays

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 495-502

  Grabherr, Martin ^a   Miller, Michael ^a   Jäger, Roland ^a   Michalzik, Rainer ^a   Martin, Ulrich ^a   Unold, Heiko J ^a   Ebeling, Karl Joachim ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LASER RESONATORS; LASER THEORY; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; POWER ELECTRONICS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES; THICK FILMS;

LASER MODELING; OPTICAL OUTPUT POWER; POWER SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASER ARRAYS; VERTICAL CAVITY SURFACE EMITTING LASERS;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 0033124039     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/2944.788411     Document Type: Article

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