Effects of 2 MeV Proton Irradiation on Operating Wavelength and Leakage Current of Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 50, Issue 6 I, 2003, Pages 1982-1990

  Kalavagunta, Aditya ^a   Choi, Bo ^b   Neifeld, Mark A ^a   Schrimpf, Ron ^b  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Leakage current; Proton radiation; Vertical cavity lasers; Wavelength shift

Indexed keywords

DEGRADATION; LEAKAGE CURRENTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

THRESHOLD CURRENTS; VERTICAL CAVITY SURFACE EMITTING LASERS (VCSEL);

PROTON IRRADIATION;

EID: 1242287945     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2003.821819     Document Type: Conference Paper

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