An overgrowth-free design for InGaA1As spot-size-converted ridge waveguide lasers

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 19, Issue 13, 2007, Pages 975-977

  Klotzkin, David ^a   Huang, Jia Sheng ^b   Lu, Hanh ^b   Nguyen, Trinh ^b   Pinnington, Tom ^c   Rajasekaran, Rajasundaram ^a   Tan, Hua ^a   Tsai, Charles ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^b NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c Aonex Technologies   (United States)

Author keywords

Optical fiber coupling; Semiconductor lasers

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL FIBER COUPLING; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTIMIZATION; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM COMPOUNDS; ALUMINUM; RIDGE WAVEGUIDES; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

LENSED SYSTEMS; RIDGE WAVEGUIDE LASERS; SPOT-SIZE-CONVERTED LASERS;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; QUANTUM WELL LASERS;

ACTIVE REGIONS; ALIGNMENT TOLERANCE; INTEGRATED SPOT-SIZE; RIDGE WAVEGUIDE LASERS; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SIMPLE METHOD; SLOPE EFFICIENCIES; THERMAL CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 34347256785     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2007.898824     Document Type: Article

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