Greatly enhanced modulation response of injection-locked multimode VCSELs

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 26, 2008, Pages 21582-21586

  Parekh, Devang ^a   Zhao, Xiaoxue ^a   Hofmann, Werner ^b   Amann, Markus C ^b   Zenteno, Luis A ^c   Chang Hasnain, Connie J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b WALTER SCHOTTKY INSTITUT   (Germany)

^c Science and Technology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; MODULATION; SOLID STATE LASERS; TRANSCEIVERS;

DETUNINGS; INJECTION LOCKED; MODULATION RESPONSE; MULTIMODES; OPTICAL INJECTION LOCKING; RESONANCE FREQUENCIES; TRANSVERSE MODE SELECTION;

SURFACE EMITTING LASERS;

EID: 58149109298     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.021582     Document Type: Article

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