Three-dimensional analysis of mode discrimination in vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 14, 2005, Pages 2832-2837

  Achtenhagen, Martin ^a   Hardy, Amos ^b   Kapon, Eli ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POLARIZATION; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ANGULAR SPECTRUM; BRAGG MIRRORS; EDGE-EMITTING LASERS; VERTICAL-CAVITY SURFACE-EMITTING LASERS (VCSEL);

LASERS;

EID: 19944377184     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.002832     Document Type: Article

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