Multistage Bipolar Cascade Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers: Theory and Experiment

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1406-1414

  Knödl, Thomas ^a   Golling, Matthias ^b   Straub, Axel ^c   Jäger, Roland ^d   Michalzik, Rainer ^e   Joachim Ebeling, Karl ^a  

^a INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG   (Germany)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^d U L M Photonics GmbH   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bipolar cascade VCSEL; Diode cascade VCSEL; Esaki diode; Multistage VCSEL; Tunnel junction; VCSEL

Indexed keywords

BIPOLAR INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; CASCADE CONNECTIONS; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; OPTIMIZATION; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SEMICONDUCTOR JUNCTIONS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; TUNNEL DIODES;

BIPOLAR CASCADE VCSEL; DIODE CASCADE VCSEL; ESAKI DIODE; MULTISTAGE VCSEL; TUNNEL JUNCTION; VERTICAL-CAVITY SURFACE EMITTING LASERS (VCSEL);

SOLID STATE LASERS;

EID: 10744226411     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2003.819484     Document Type: Conference Paper

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