External cavity diode lasers tuned with silicon MEMS

Conference on Optical Fiber Communication, Technical Digest Series

Volumn 70, Issue , 2002, Pages 97-98

  Anthon, Doug ^a   Berger, Jill D ^a   Drake, Joe ^a   Dutta, Subrata ^a   Fennema, Al ^a   Grade, John D ^a   Hrinya, Stephen ^a   Ilkov, Fedor ^a   Jerman, Hal ^a   King, David ^a   Lee, Howard ^a   Tselikov, Alex ^a   Yasumura, Kevin ^a  

^a Iolon Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; CAVITY RESONATORS; DENSE WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASERS; LIGHT EXTINCTION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MIRRORS; OPTICAL DESIGN; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; SERVOMECHANISMS;

EXTERNAL CAVITY DIODE LASERS (ECL);

MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES;

EID: 0036440198     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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