Novel concepts for ultrahigh-speed quantum-dot VCSELs and edge-emitters

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6468, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Ledentsov, N N ^a,b   Hopfer, F ^a   Mutig, A ^a   Shchukin, V A ^a,b   Savel'ev, A V ^a,b   Fiol, G ^a   Kuntz, M ^a   Haisler, V A ^a,d   Warming, T ^a   Stock, E ^a   Mikhrin, S S ^e   Kovsh, A R ^e   Bornholdt, C ^c   Lenz, A ^a   Eisele, H ^a   Dahne M ^a   Zakharov, N D ^f   Werner, P ^f   Bimberg, D ^a  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b IOFFE INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^c FRAUNHOFER HEINRICH HERTZ INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^d INSTITUTE OF SEMICONDUCTOR PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^e NL Nanosemiconductor GmbH   (Germany)

^f MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MICROSTRUCTURE PHYSICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

High speed modulation; Optical interconnects; Semiconductor lasers; Surface emitting lasers

Indexed keywords

GAIN MEASUREMENT; LEAKAGE CURRENTS; OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SURFACE EMITTING LASERS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

HIGH SPEED MODULATION; RADIATIVE LEAKAGE; TEMPERATURE DEPLETION; VERTICAL-CAVITY SURFACE-EMITTING LASERS (VCSEL);

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 34248524773     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.717248     Document Type: Conference Paper

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