Vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers with spatially adjustable DBR reflectivity to enable free-space photonic repeaters

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 636-638

  Bond, Aaron E ^a   Dapkus, P Daniel ^a,b  

^a University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

^b IEEE

Author keywords

Distributed Bragg reflector lasers; Optical data processing; Semiconductor lasers; Surface emitting lasers

Indexed keywords

EID: 3643088659     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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