Strong optical injection-locked semiconductor lasers demonstrating > 100-GHz resonance frequencies and 80-GHz intrinsic bandwidths

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 6609-6618

  Lau, Erwin K ^a   Zhao, Xiaoxue ^a   Sung, Hyuk Kee ^b   Parekh, Devang ^a   Chang Hasnain, Connie ^a   Wu, Ming C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Hong Ik University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASERS; ELECTRON INJECTION; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SURFACE EMITTING LASERS;

3-DB BANDWIDTH; DC CURRENT; INJECTION-LOCKED LASERS;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

ARTICLE; DIODE LASER; OPTICS;

LASERS, SEMICONDUCTOR; OPTICS;

EID: 43049092302     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.006609     Document Type: Article

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