Control of the spatial emission structure of broad-area vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers by feedback

Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Schulz Ruhtenberg, M ^a   Tanguy, Y ^b   Huang, K F ^c   Jager R ^d   Ackemann, T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEEDBACK; LASERS; SPACE PROBES;

CONTROL RANGES; DISPERSION CURVES; EMISSION FREQUENCIES; EMISSION WAVELENGTHS; FEEDBACK TECHNIQUES; FOURIER SPACES; FREE-RUNNING LASERS; FREQUENCY-SELECTIVE; SELF-IMAGING; SPATIAL EMISSIONS; SPATIAL FILTERING; SPATIAL FREQUENCIES; SPATIAL STRUCTURES; VERTICAL CAVITY SURFACE-EMITTING LASERS; WAVE NUMBERS;

SURFACE EMITTING LASERS;

EID: 63649119728     PISSN: 00223727     EISSN: 13616463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0022-3727/42/5/055101     Document Type: Article

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