Control of microsphere lasing wavelength using λ/4-shifted distributed feedback resonator

Electronics Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 25, 2003, Pages 1817-1819

  Sasagawa, K ^a   Yonezawa, Z ^a   Ohta, J ^a   Nunoshita, M ^a  

^a NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASERS; ION BEAM LITHOGRAPHY; LASER MODES; NEODYMIUM; OPTICAL FILTERS; OPTICAL GLASS; OPTICAL VARIABLES CONTROL; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SINGLE MODE FIBERS; TELLURIUM COMPOUNDS;

BRAGG WAVELENGTH; DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK RESONATOR; FOCUSED ION BEAM LITHOGRAPHY; MICROSPHERE LASERS; TELLURITE; WHISPERING GALLERY MODE;

LASER RESONATORS;

EID: 0345761723     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:20031156     Document Type: Article

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