Investigation of catastrophic optical mirror damage in high power single-mode InGaAs-AlGaAs strained quantum well lasers with focused ion beam and HR-TEM techniques

Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2007, CLEO 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Sin, Yongkun ^a   Presser, Nathan ^a   Foran, Brendan ^a   Mason, Maribeth ^a   Moss, Steven C ^a  

^a AEROSPACE CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CATASTROPHIC OPTICAL MIRROR DAMAGES; HIGH-POWER; HIGH-RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPES; SINGLE MODE; SPATIAL MODES; STRAINED QUANTUM WELL LASER; STRAINED QUANTUM WELLS;

ALUMINUM GALLIUM ARSENIDE; FOCUSED ION BEAMS; MIRRORS; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

QUANTUM WELL LASERS;

EID: 82955207639     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CLEO.2007.4452726     Document Type: Conference Paper

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