Coherent kinks in high-power ridge waveguide laser diodes

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 2225-2232

  Achtenhagen, Martin ^a,b   Hardy, Amos A ^a,c   Harder, Christoph S ^d  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b IBM   (Switzerland)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Laser modes; Modeling; Semiconductor device modeling; Semiconductor lasers

Indexed keywords

LASER MODES; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MANUFACTURE; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

COHERENT KINKS; RIDGE WAVEGUIDE LASERS;

COHERENT LIGHT;

EID: 33646933485     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2006.872313     Document Type: Article

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