High-performance 980-nm ridge waveguide lasers with a nearly circular beam

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 981-983

  Yang, Guowen ^a   Smith, Gary M ^a   Davis, Monica K ^a   Kussmaul, Andreas ^a   Loeber, David A S ^a   Hu, Martin H ^a   Nguyen, Hong Ky ^a   Zah, Chung En ^a   Bhat, Rajaram ^a  

^a Corning Lasertron Inc ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Beam divergence; Diode lasers; Fiber Bragg grating (FBG); Semiconductor laser

Indexed keywords

FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; FIBER LASERS; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; TEMPERATURE;

CIRCULAR BEAM; POWER STABILITY; VERTICAL BEAM DIVERGENCE;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 1942500983     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2004.824662     Document Type: Article

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