Tunable photonic crystal coupled-cavity laser

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1306-1314

  Mahnkopf, Sven ^a   März, Reinhard ^b   Kamp, Martin ^a   Duan, Guang Hua ^c   Lelarge, François ^c   Forchel, Alfred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG   (Germany)

^c OPTO+   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTEGRATED OPTOELECTRONICS; LASER MODES; LASER TUNING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONOLITHIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM PHOSPHIDE; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; TRANSFER MATRIX MODEL; TUNABLE LASERS;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 4544387949     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2004.831638     Document Type: Article

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