Long-wavelength MEMS tunable vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers with high sidemode suppression

Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2006, Pages

  Kogel B ^a   Maute, M ^b   Halbritter, H ^a   Riemenschneider, F ^a   Bohm G ^b   Amann, M C ^b   Meissner, P ^a  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b WALTER SCHOTTKY INSTITUT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Far field; Long wavelength; Micromachining; Polarization mode control; Transverse sidemodes; Tunable optical resonator; Vertical cavity surface emitting laser

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; LASER APPLICATIONS; MIRRORS; POLARIZATION; RESONANCE; TUNING; TUNNEL JUNCTIONS;

FAR-FIELD; LONG-WAVELENGTH; POLARIZATION MODE CONTROL; TRANSVERSE SIDEMODES; TUNABLE OPTICAL RESONATOR; VERTICAL-CAVITY SURFACE-EMITTING LASER;

MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES;

EID: 33745209416     PISSN: 14644258     EISSN: 17413567     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1464-4258/8/7/S13     Document Type: Article

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