Efficient and individually controllable mechanisms for mode and polarization selection in VCSELs, based on a common, localized, sub-wavelength surface grating

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 17, 2005, Pages 6626-6634

  Gustavsson, Johan S ^a   Haglund, Åsa ^a   Vukušić, Josip A ^a   Bengtsson, Jörgen ^a   Jedrasik, Piotr ^a   Larsson, Anders ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; FABRICATION; LASER PULSES; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MIRRORS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; THRESHOLD VOLTAGE;

BRAGG MIRRORS; SLOPE EFFICIENCY; SUB-WAVE LENGTH GRATING; VERTICAL-CAVITY SURFACE-EMITTING LASERS (VCSEL);

SOLID STATE LASERS;

EID: 24144502489     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.006626     Document Type: Review

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