Tuning of external-cavity semiconductor lasers with chirped diffraction gratings

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 24, 2005, Pages 5112-5119

  Duval, Marc ^a   Fortin, Gilles ^a   Piché, Michel ^a   McCarthy, Nathalie ^a  

^a CENTRE D OPTIQUE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); PHOTORESISTS;

HOLOGRAPHIC TECHNIQUES; LITTROW CONFIGURATION; SPECTRAL BANDS; VISIBLE DIODE LASERS;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 25444505667     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.005112     Document Type: Article

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