Thermally controlled onset of spatially incoherent emission in a broad-area vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 555-562

  Craggs, Gordon ^a   Verschaffelt, Guy ^a   Mandre, Shyam K ^b   Thienpont, Hugo ^a   Fischer, Ingo ^c  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b Braun GmbH   (Germany)

^c HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Semiconductor laser; Spatial coherence; Thermal effects; Vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL)

Indexed keywords

A-THERMAL; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; PHYSICAL PROCESS; PULSED OPERATION; REFRACTIVE INDEX GRADIENTS; SPATIAL COHERENCE; THERMAL CHIRP; THERMAL LENS; VERTICAL-CAVITY SURFACE EMITTING LASER; VERTICAL-CAVITY SURFACE-EMITTING LASER (VCSEL);

DATA COMPRESSION; LASERS; LENSES; MICROOPTICS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; SURFACE EMITTING LASERS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

THERMAL EXPANSION;

EID: 67650844515     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2009.2016355     Document Type: Article

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