Matching the emitting wavelength from a very-small-aperture laser to the resonant property of a nanometric C-aperture

Applied Optics

Volumn 46, Issue 31, 2007, Pages 7746-7750

  Gai, Hongfeng ^a   Wang, Jia ^a   Tian, Qian ^a   Xia, Wei ^b   Xu, Xiangang ^b  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC POWER UTILIZATION; WAVELENGTH;

DRIVE CURRENT; RESONANT WAVELENGTH; VERY-SMALL-APERTURE LASER (VSAL);

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 38749149234     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.46.007746     Document Type: Article

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