InP-based wavelength tunable vertical cavity surface emitting laser structures

Comptes Rendus Physique

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 675-685

  Sagnes, Isabelle ^a   Strassner, Martin ^d   Bouchoule, Sophie ^a   Leclerq, Jean Louis ^b   Regreny, Philippe ^b   Bakouboula, Aldrice ^b   Riemenschneider, Frank ^c   Meissner, Peter ^c  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b INSTITUT DES NANOTECHNOLOGIES DE LYON   (France)

^c DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^d ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

III V semiconductors; Micro opto electro mechanical systems; Tunable lasers; Vertical surface emitting lasers

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141908308     PISSN: 16310705     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1631-0705(03)00082-3     Document Type: Short Survey

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