Design of distributed Bragg reflector structures for transverse-mode discrimination in vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1962-1967

  Achtenhagen, Martin ^a   Hardy, Amos A ^b   Kapon, Eli ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; LASER MODES; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIRRORS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

DISTRIBUTED BRAGG REFLECTOR; INVERSE FOURIER TRANSFORM; LATERAL MODE; TRANSVERSE MODE DISCRIMINATION; VERTICAL CAVITY SURFACE EMITTING LASER;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 4344637044     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2004.832442     Document Type: Article

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