Wavelength modulation over 500 kHz of micromechanically tunable inp-based VCSELs with Si-MEMS technology

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 528-534

  Yano, Tetsuo ^a   Saitou, Hiroki ^a   Kanbara, Nobuhiko ^a   Noda, Ryuichiro ^a   Tezuka, Shin Ichirou ^a   Fujimura, Naoyuki ^a   Ooyama, Masaya ^a   Watanabe, Tetsuya ^a   Hirata, Takaaki ^a   Nishiyama, Nobuhiko ^b  

^a YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

InP; Long wavelength; Microelectromechanical system (MEMS); Tunable laser; Vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL)

Indexed keywords

INP; LONG-WAVELENGTH; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEM (MEMS); TUNABLE LASER; VERTICAL-CAVITY SURFACE-EMITTING LASER (VCSEL);

COMPOSITE MICROMECHANICS; LASER TUNING; LASERS; MECHATRONICS; MEMS; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; MIRRORS; MODULATION;

SURFACE EMITTING LASERS;

EID: 67650841067     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2009.2015468     Document Type: Article

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