Long wavelength VCSEL-by-VCSEL optical injection locking

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 57, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1850-1858

  Hayat, Ahmad ^a   Bacou, Alexandre ^a   Rissons, Anglique ^a   Mollier, Jean Claude ^a   Iakovlev, Vladimir ^b   Sirbu, Alexei ^c   Kapon, Eli ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^b BeamExpress SA   (Switzerland)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

1.3 m vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL); Microwave response of VCSELs; Optical injection locking; Probe station testing

Indexed keywords

DETUNINGS; INJECTED POWER; INJECTION-LOCKING; LONG WAVELENGTH; MICROWAVE RESPONSE OF VCSELS; NOVEL ARCHITECTURE; OPTICAL INJECTION LOCKING; PROBE STATION TESTING; PROBE STATIONS; RATE EQUATIONS; RESONANCE FREQUENCIES; UNDERLYING MECHANISM; VERTICAL-CAVITY SURFACE EMITTING LASER;

ALUMINA; CUTOFF FREQUENCY; LASERS; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MICROWAVES; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PROBES; RESONANCE; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SURFACE TESTING;

SURFACE EMITTING LASERS;

EID: 68349083497     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2009.2022809     Document Type: Article

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