Progress and issues for high speed vertical cavity surface emitting lasers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6484, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Lear, Kevin L ^a   Al Omari, Ahmad N ^b  

^a Department of Mechanical Engineering   (United States)

^b YARMOUK UNIVERSITY   (Jordan)

Author keywords

Frequency response; Laser diode modulation; RC time constants; Thermal impedance; VCSEL

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CAVITY RESONATORS; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

JUNCTION HEATING; LASER DIODE MODULATION; RC TIME CONSTANTS; THERMAL IMPEDANCE;

SURFACE EMITTING LASERS;

EID: 34248672845     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.715081     Document Type: Conference Paper

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