High-power (>10 mW) superluminescent diodes by using active multimode interferometer

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 721-723

  Zang, Zhigang ^a   Minato, Takahiro ^a   Navaretti, Paolo ^b   Hinokuma, Yasuhiro ^a   Duelk, Marcus ^b   Velez, Christian ^b   Hamamoto, Kiichi ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b EXALOS AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Active multimode interferometer (MMI); High powersuperluminescent light emitting diodes (SLEDs)

Indexed keywords

HIGH-POWER; MAXIMUM OUTPUT POWER; MULTIMODE INTERFEROMETER; OUTPUT POWER; STABLE SINGLE-TRANSVERSE-MODE; SUPERLUMINESCENT DIODE;

INTERFEROMETERS; LIGHT EMISSION; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM GALLIUM ARSENIDE; VEHICLES;

DIODES;

EID: 77951742754     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2010.2044994     Document Type: Article

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