Advances in facet design for buried lasers and amplifiers

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 175-184

  Vukovic, Ana ^a   Sewell, Phillip ^a   Benson, Trevor M ^a   Kendall, Peter C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MODELS;

BURIED LASERS;

INTEGRATED OPTOELECTRONICS;

EID: 0033876067     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/2944.826886     Document Type: Article

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