Experimental demonstration of spatial hole burning reduction leading to 1480-nm pump lasers output power improvement

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 2023-2025

  Guermache, Ali ^a   Voiriot, Vincent ^a   Locatelli, Damien ^a   Legrand, Frédéric ^a   Capella, Rose Marie ^a   Gallion, Philippe ^b   Jacquet, Joël ^c  

^a Avanex France   (France)

^b TELECOM PARISTECH   (France)

^c SUPELEC   (France)

Author keywords

Flared waveguide; Pump lasers; Semiconductor lasers

Indexed keywords

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; HIGH POWER LASERS; MIRRORS; MOLECULAR BEAM EPITAXY; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTONS; PUMPING (LASER); SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM PHOSPHIDE; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION; STIMULATED EMISSION;

FLARED WAVEGUIDE; PHOTON DENSITY; PUMP LASERS;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 26844467367     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2005.854386     Document Type: Article

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