Coherence length tunable semiconductor laser with optical feedback

Applied Optics

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 969-973

  Wang, Yuncai ^a   Kong, Lingqin ^a   Wang, Anbang ^a   Fan, Linlin ^a  

^a TAIYUAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEEDBACK; OPTICAL FEEDBACK; VISIBILITY;

COHERENCE COLLAPSE; COHERENCE LENGTHS; FEEDBACK STRENGTH; FINE STRUCTURES; FRINGE VISIBILITIES; OPTICAL-FEEDBACK TECHNIQUES; SOLITARY LASER; TUNABLE SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 61449217108     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.48.000969     Document Type: Article

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