Transition from perturbed to coupled-cavity behavior with asymmetric spectral emission in ridge lasers emitting at 1.55 μm

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 58-60

  Roycroft, Brendan ^a   Lambkin, P ^a   Riesner, S ^a,b   Corbett, B ^a   Donegan, J F ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES JENA   (Germany)

^c TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Coupled mode analysis; Laser modes; Semiconductor lasers; Wavelength division multiplexing

Indexed keywords

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SINGLE MODE FIBERS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

COUPLED MODE ANALYSIS; COUPLED-CAVITY BEHAVIOR; PERTURBED MODE; RIDGE WAVEGUIDE LASERS;

LASER MODES;

EID: 33846053052     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2006.889106     Document Type: Article

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