Spatial decoherence of pulsed broad-area vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 23, 2005, Pages 9337-9345

  Peeters, Michael ^a   Verschaffelt, Guy ^a   Thienpont, Hugo ^a   Mandre, Shyam K ^b   Fischer, Ingo ^a,b   Grabherr, Martin ^c  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT;

ELECTRICAL PULSES; SPATIAL DECOHERENCE;

LASERS;

EID: 27744479179     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.009337     Document Type: Article

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