Discretely tunable semiconductor lasers suitable for photonic integration

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 482-487

  Byrne, Diarmuid C ^a   Engelstaedter, Jan Peter ^b   Guo, Wei Hua ^a   Lu, Qiao Yin ^a   Corbett, Brian ^b   Roycroft, Brendan ^b   O'Callaghan, James ^b   Peters, F H ^c   Donegan, John F ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Photonic integration; Semiconductor lasers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Tunable lasers

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE MIRRORS; CARRIER INJECTION; CHANNEL POWER; DISCRETE MODE; DISCRETELY TUNABLE; LASER STRUCTURES; MODE SPACING; OPTICAL FUNCTION; PHOTONIC INTEGRATION; PHOTONIC INTEGRATIONS; RIDGE WAVEGUIDES; SIDE MODE SUPPRESSION RATIOS; SPECTRAL DEPENDENCES; TUNABLE LASERS; TUNING RANGES;

INTEGRATION; LASER TUNING; LASERS; MONOLITHIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS; WAVEGUIDES;

MIRRORS;

EID: 67650915049     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2009.2016981     Document Type: Article

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