High-brightness quantum well tapered lasers

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1009-1020

  Sumpf, Bernd ^a   Hasler, Karl Heinz ^a   Adamiec, Pawel ^a   Bugge, Frank ^a   Dittmar, Frank ^a,b   Fricke, Jörg ^a   Wenzel, Hans ^a   Zorn, Martin ^a   Erbert, Götz ^a   Tränkle, Günther ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUT FÜR HÖCHSTFREQUENZTECHNIK   (Germany)

^b DILAS Diodenlaser GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Lasers; Semiconductor lasers

Indexed keywords

BEAM PROPAGATION FACTOR; DIFFRACTION-LIMITED BEAMS; EMISSION WAVELENGTH; FAR-FIELD; HIGH BRIGHTNESS; HIGH-POWER; LAYER STRUCTURES; OUTPUT POWER; QUANTUM WELL; SPECTRAL RANGE; TAPERED LASERS;

LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; SOLIDS;

QUANTUM WELL LASERS;

EID: 67650901940     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2008.2010952     Document Type: Article

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