Efficient vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers for infrared illumination applications

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7952, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Seurin, Jean Francois ^a   Xu, Guoyang ^a   Guo, Baiming ^a   Miglo, Alexander ^a   Wang, Qing ^a   Pradhan, Prachi ^a   Wynn, James D ^a   Khalfin, Viktor ^a   Zou, Wei Xiong ^a   Ghosh, Chuni ^a   Van Leeuwen, Robert ^a  

^a Princeton Optronics   (United States)

Author keywords

2D array; 808nm; 976nm; high efficiency; high power; infrared illumination; infrared imaging; reliability; Semiconductor lasers; speckle free; vertical cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSELs)

Indexed keywords

2D ARRAYS; 808NM; 976NM; HIGH EFFICIENCY; HIGH-POWER; INFRARED ILLUMINATION; VERTICAL-CAVITY SURFACE EMITTING LASER;

EFFICIENCY; EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INFRARED DEVICES; LASERS; RELIABILITY; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SPECKLE; SURFACE EMITTING LASERS; THERMOGRAPHY (IMAGING); TWO DIMENSIONAL;

INFRARED LASERS;

EID: 79955387746     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.873933     Document Type: Conference Paper

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