External cavity diode lasers with E-beam written silicon diffraction gratings

Optical and Quantum Electronics

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 585-595

  Mroziewicz, Bohdan ^a   Kowalczyk, Emil ^a   Dobrzanski, Lech ^a   Ratajczak, Jacek ^a   Lewandowski, Stainslaw J ^b  

^a ukasiewicz Research Network Institute of Microelectronics and Photonics   (Poland)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Poland)

Author keywords

E beam writing; External cavity lasers; Silicon gratings

Indexed keywords

E-BEAM WRITING; EXTERNAL CAVITY LASERS; SILICON GRATINGS;

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; REACTIVE ION ETCHING; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; SILICON;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 34548667962     PISSN: 03068919     EISSN: 1572817X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11082-007-9111-7     Document Type: Article

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