High-speed modulation of index-guided implant-confined vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 673-678

  Chen, Chen ^a   Leisher, Paul O ^b   Kuchta, Daniel M ^c   Choquette, Kent D ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b NLIGHT CORPORATION   (United States)

^c IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

High speed modulation; Semiconductor laser; Vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL)

Indexed keywords

DESIGN RULES; DIFFUSION EFFECTS; HIGH-SPEED; HIGH-SPEED MODULATION; HIGH-SPEED OPERATION; LARGE-SIGNAL; LARGE-SIGNAL MODULATION; LASER GAIN; OPTICAL MODES; PARAMETRIC STUDY; RELATIVE INTENSITY NOISE; SINGLE MODE; SPATIAL OVERLAP; TRANSVERSE-MODE; VERTICAL-CAVITY SURFACE EMITTING LASER; VERTICAL-CAVITY SURFACE-EMITTING LASER (VCSEL);

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; LASER OPTICS; LASERS; MICROOPTICS; MODULATION; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SOLID STATE LASERS; SPEED;

SURFACE EMITTING LASERS;

EID: 67650869726     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2009.2016115     Document Type: Article

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