A measurement of modal gain profile and its effect on the lasing performance in vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting lasers

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 23, 2006, Pages 2496-2498

  Kim, Jun Youn ^a   Cho, Soohaeng ^a   Lee, Junho ^a   Kim, Gi Bum ^a   Lim, Seong Jin ^a   Yoo, Jaeryung ^a   Kim, Ki Sung ^a   Lee, Sang Moon ^a   Shim, Jongin ^a,b   Kim, Taek ^a   Park, Yongjo ^a  

^a Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT)   (South Korea)

^b Hanyang University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

External cavity lasers; High power laser; Second harmonic generation (SHG); Vertical cavity lasers

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; FREQUENCY DOUBLERS; HARMONIC GENERATION; HIGH POWER LASERS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

MODAL GAIN PROFILE; RELATIVE WAVELENGTH DIFFERENCE;

SURFACE EMITTING LASERS;

EID: 33847148788     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2006.887217     Document Type: Article

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