Electrically-pumped 850-nm micromirror VECSELs

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 5737, Issue , 2005, Pages 69-74

  Keeler, Gordon A ^a   Serkland, Darwin K ^a   Geib, Kent M ^a   Peake, Gregory M ^a   Mar, Alan ^a  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrical pumping; External cavity; Micromirror; Semiconductor laser; Surface emitting laser; VECSEL; Vertical external cavity surface emitting laser

Indexed keywords

BEAM QUALITY; ELECTRICAL PUMPING; EXTERNAL CAVITY (EC); MICROMIRROR; SURFACE EMITTING LASER; THERMAL LENSING; VERTICAL-EXTERNAL-CAVITY SURFACE-EMITTING LASERS (VECSEL);

ALUMINUM NITRIDE; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ELASTOMERS; ELECTROPLATING; EPITAXIAL GROWTH; FLIP CHIP DEVICES; METALLIZING; MICROLENSES; OPTICAL RADAR; OPTICALLY PUMPED LASERS;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 21844453925     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.591186     Document Type: Conference Paper

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