1.3 μm-wavelength phase-locked VCSEL arrays incorporating patterned tunnel junction

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 8558-8566

  Mutter, Lukas ^a   Iakovlev, Vladimir ^a   Caliman, Andrei ^a   Mereuta, Alexandra ^a   Sirbu, Alexei ^a   Kapon, Eli ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOCKS (FASTENERS);

ARRAY ELEMENTS; PHASE LOCKED; PHASE-LOCKING; SPECTRAL MEASUREMENT; THEORETICAL MODELING; TWO-DIMENSIONAL ARRAYS; VCSEL ARRAYS; WAFER FUSION;

TUNNEL JUNCTIONS;

EID: 66549109534     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.008558     Document Type: Article

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