Apodizing holographic gratings for the modal control of semiconductor lasers

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 21, 1997, Pages 4993-4998

  Lepage, Jean François ^a   Massudi, Reza ^a   Anctil, Geneviève ^a   Gilbert, Sébastien ^a   Piché, Michel ^a   McCarthy, Nathalie ^a  

^a CENTRE D OPTIQUE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Broad area lasers; External cavity; Holographic grating; Lateral mode control; Longitudinal mode control; Semiconductor lasers; Spatially variable reflectivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 3042623457     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.004993     Document Type: Article

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