Demonstration of piezoelectric actuated GaAs-based MEMS tunable VCSEL

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1197-1199

  Huang, Michael C Y ^a   Cheng, Kan Bun ^b   Zhou, Ye ^a   Pesala, Bala ^a   Chang Hasnain, Connie J ^a   Pisano, Albert P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Laser tuning; Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS); Vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL)

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS TUNING; CONTINUOUS WAVE OPERATION; GAAS; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEMS; MONOLITHICALLY INTEGRATED; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SINGLE MODE EMISSION; VERTICAL-CAVITY SURFACE EMITTING LASER; VERTICAL-CAVITY SURFACE-EMITTING LASER (VCSEL);

COMPOSITE MICROMECHANICS; LASER TUNING; LASERS; MECHATRONICS; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; MONOLITHIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PIEZOELECTRICITY; SURFACE EMITTING LASERS;

MOEMS;

EID: 33846855281     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2006.873923     Document Type: Article

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