High power and stable high coupling efficiency (66%) superluminescent light emitting diodes by using active multi-mode interferometer

IEICE Transactions on Electronics

Volumn E94-C, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 862-864

  Zang, Zhigang ^a   Mukai, Keisuke ^a   Navaretti, Paolo ^b   Duelk, Marcus ^b   Velez, Christian ^b   Hamamoto, Kiichi ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b EXALOS AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Active multi mode interferometer (MMI); High coupling efficiency; Single mode fiber; Superluminescent light emitting diodes (SLEDs)

Indexed keywords

DIODES; EFFICIENCY; INTERFEROMETERS; SINGLE MODE FIBERS; VEHICLES;

3 DB BANDWIDTH; COUPLING EFFICIENCY; FIBER COUPLED; HIGH POWER; MAXIMUM OUTPUT POWER; MULTIMODE INTERFEROMETER; SUPERLUMINESCENT LIGHT EMITTING DIODES;

LIGHT EMITTING DIODES;

EID: 79955575769     PISSN: 09168524     EISSN: 17451353     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1587/transele.E94.C.862     Document Type: Article

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