Fabrication of Wavelength-Tunable Butt-Coupled Sampled Grating DBR Lasers Using Planar Buried Heterostructure

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1680-1682

  Oh, Su Hwan ^a   Lee, Ji Myon ^a   Kim, Ki Soo ^a   Lee, Chul Wook ^a   Ko, Hyunsung ^a   Park, Sahnggi ^a   Park, Moon Ho ^a  

^a Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Butt coupled; Integrated laser; Planar buried heterostructure laser diode (PBH LD); Sampled grating (SG); Sampled grating distributed Bragg reflector laser diode (SGDBR LD); Tunable laser

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; ELECTRON BEAM LITHOGRAPHY; HETEROJUNCTIONS; LASER TUNING; METALLORGANIC CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; OHMIC CONTACTS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; REACTIVE ION ETCHING; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

BUTT COUPLING; DISTRIBUTED BRAGG REFLECTORS (DBR); RIDGED WAVEGUIDES (RWG);

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 0348233404     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2003.819722     Document Type: Article

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