High-brightness quantum well and quantum dot tapered lasers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6909, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Michel, N ^a   Krakowski, M ^a   Hassiaoui, I ^a   Calligaro, M ^a   Lecomte, M ^a   Parillaud, O ^a   Weinmann, P ^b   Zimmermann, C ^b   Kaiser, W ^b   Kamp, M ^b   Forchel, A ^b   Pavelescu, E M ^c   Reithmaier, J P ^c   Sumpf, B ^d   Erbert, G ^d   Kelemen, M ^e,g   Ostendorf, R ^e   Garcia Tijero J M ^f   Odriozola, H ^f   Esquivias, I ^f  

^a ALCATEL THALES III V LAB   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

^d LEIBNIZ INSTITUT FÜR HÖCHSTFREQUENZTECHNIK   (Germany)

^e FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SOLID STATE PHYSICS IAF   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^g m2k Lasers ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; LUMINANCE; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; WAVELENGTH;

INDEX-GUIDED TAPERED LASERS; TAPERED LASERS;

QUANTUM WELL LASERS;

EID: 40749135807     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.787115     Document Type: Conference Paper

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