Concave tapered grating design of DFB laser at high power operation for reduced spatial hole-burning effect

Materials Science and Engineering: B

Volumn 96, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 1-7

  Shahshahani, F ^a,b   Ahmadi, V ^c,d   Mirabbaszadeh, K ^a  

^a AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b ALZAHRA UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^d ATOMIC ENERGY ORGANIZATION OF IRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Distributed feedback laser; Semiconductor laser; Spatial hole burning; Tapered grating

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; PHOTONS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

CONCAVE TAPERED GRATINGS (CTG);

DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASERS;

EID: 0036785764     PISSN: 09215107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0921-5107(02)00238-6     Document Type: Article

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