Broadband MEMS-tunable high-index-contrast subwavelength grating long-wavelength VCSEL

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1245-1253

  Chung, Il Sug ^a   Iakovlev, Vladmir ^b   Sirbu, Alexei ^c   Mereuta, Alexandru ^c   Caliman, Andrei ^c   Kapon, Eli ^c   Mørk, Jesper ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b BeamExpress SA   (Switzerland)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Microelectromechanical; sensor; sub wavelength grating; vertical cavity surface emitting laser

Indexed keywords

AIR-GAPS; ANALYTICAL EXPRESSIONS; BASIC PROPERTIES; CAVITY LENGTH; CHARACTERISTIC LENGTH; HIGH INDEX CONTRAST; LARGE TUNING RANGE; LINEAR TUNING; LONG WAVELENGTH; MICRO ELECTRO MECHANICAL SYSTEM; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL SENSORS; NEW STRUCTURES; OPTICAL CAVITIES; OUTPUT POWER; PENETRATION DEPTH; REFLECTION MECHANISM; RESONANT COUPLINGS; SHORT CAVITY; SINGLE MODE; SINGLE MODE OPERATION; SUB-WAVE LENGTH GRATING; TUNING RANGES; VERTICAL-CAVITY SURFACE EMITTING LASER; WAVELENGTH RANGES; WAVELENGTH TUNING;

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; LASERS; MACHINE DESIGN; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; MIRRORS; MOEMS; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SENSORS; SURFACE EMITTING LASERS; SURFACE STRUCTURE; TEMPERATURE CONTROL;

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EID: 77955135010     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2010.2047494     Document Type: Article

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