Widely tunable bottom-emitting vertical-cavity SOAs

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 2526-2528

  Cole, Garrett D ^a,b   Björlin, E Staffan ^a   Wang, Chad S ^a   MacDonald, Noel C ^a   Bowers, John E ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b Aerius Photonics LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

Fabry P rot resonators; Laser amplifiers; Micro electromechanical (MEMS) devices; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Surface emitting lasers; Tunable amplifiers; Wafer bonding

Indexed keywords

BONDING; BRAGG CELLS; LASER RESONATORS; LASER TUNING; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; LIGHT EMISSION; LIGHT REFLECTION; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; MIRRORS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MANUFACTURE; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE TESTING;

BOTTOM-EMITTING DEVICES; BRAGG MIRROR; FABRY-PEROT RESONATORS; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL (MEMS) DEVICES; SURFACE-EMITTING LASERS; TUNABLE AMPLIFIERS; VERTICAL-CAVITY SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS (VCSOAS); WAFER BONDING;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 29244488217     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2005.859157     Document Type: Article

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