Operation of an optical in-well-pumped vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting laser

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 29, 2006, Pages 7729-7735

  Zhang, Wei ^a   Ackemann, Thorsten ^a   McGinily, Stephen ^a   Schmid, Marc ^a   Riis, Erling ^a   Ferguson, Allister I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; LIGHT EMISSION; OPTICAL FIBERS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

CAVITY SURFACE-EMITTING LASER; FIBER-COUPLED LASER DIODE;

LASERS;

EID: 33750540799     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.007729     Document Type: Article

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