Broadband external cavity tunable quantum dot lasers with low injection current density

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 8916-8922

  Lv, X Q ^a   Jin, P ^a   Wang, W Y ^a   Wang, Z G ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF SEMICONDUCTORS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COATINGS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; QUANTUM THEORY; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; TUNING;

ACTIVE REGIONS; ANTI-REFLECTION; CAVITY LENGTH; CONTINUOUS WAVES; DEVICE PERFORMANCE; EXTERNAL CAVITY; EXTERNAL CAVITY LASERS; FACET COATING; INAS/GAAS QUANTUM DOTS; INJECTION CURRENT DENSITY; LIGHT FIELDS; QUANTUM DOT; TUNABLE BANDWIDTH; WAVELENGTH-TUNING RANGE;

QUANTUM DOT LASERS;

EID: 77952032644     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.008916     Document Type: Article

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