Long-wavelength tunable vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers and the influence of coupled cavities

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 20, 2005, Pages 8008-8014

  Maute, Markus ^a   Böhm, Gerhard ^a   Amann, Markus C ^a   Kögel, Benjamin ^b   Halbritter, Hubert ^b   Meissner, Peter ^b  

^a WALTER SCHOTTKY INSTITUT   (Germany)

^b DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; INDIUM COMPOUNDS; MIRRORS; OPTIMIZATION; TUNNEL JUNCTIONS;

AMPLIFYING COMPONENT; COUPLED CAVITY; TWO-CHIP CONCEPT;

LASERS;

EID: 30144439552     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.008008     Document Type: Article

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