Beam steering in narrow-stripe high-power 980-nm laser diodes

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 1604-1606

  Herzog, W D ^a   Goldberg, B B ^a   Unlu M S ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIREFLECTION COATINGS; ELECTRIC CURRENT MEASUREMENT; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENT; GRADIENT INDEX OPTICS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; HIGH POWER LASERS; LASER BEAM EFFECTS; NEAR FIELD SCANNING OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SCANNING;

BEAM STEERING; CATASTROPHIC OPTICAL DAMAGE; FREQUENCY LOCKED LATERAL MODES; GRADED INDEX SEPARATE CONFINEMENT HETEROSTRUCTURE; HIGH POWER LASER DIODES; HIGH REFLECTION COATED FACETS; IMPEDANCE CURRENT CURVE; OPTICAL BEAM;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 0034469264     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.896321     Document Type: Article

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