High-power, ultralow-noise semiconductor external cavity lasers based on low-confinement optical waveguide gain media

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7616, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Juodawlkis, Paul W ^a   Loh, William ^a   O'Donnell, Frederick J ^a   Brattain, Michael A ^a   Plant, Jason J ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

External cavity laser; High power; Low confinement; Narrow linewidth; Quantum well; Semiconductor laser

Indexed keywords

CONFINEMENT FACTOR; COUPLED OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; DOUBLE PASS; EXTERNAL CAVITY; EXTERNAL-CAVITY LASERS; FIBER BRAGG GRATING (FBG); GAIN MEDIA; GAIN MEDIUM; HIGH-POWER; INGAALAS; KEY CHARACTERISTICS; LOW INDEX; LOW NOISE; MAXIMUM OUTPUT POWER; NARROW BANDS; NARROW-LINE WIDTH; OFFSET FREQUENCIES; OPERATING PRINCIPLES; OPTICAL CONFINEMENT FACTORS; OUTPUT POWER; QUANTUM WELL; QUANTUM-WELL SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR EXTERNAL CAVITY LASERS; SINGLE-FREQUENCY; THERMAL RESISTANCE; TRANSVERSE-MODE;

FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; LASERS; LINEWIDTH; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; REFLECTION; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; WAVEGUIDES;

QUANTUM WELL LASERS;

EID: 77951585283     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.846662     Document Type: Conference Paper

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