An electrically pumped Germanium laser

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 11316-11320

  Camacho Aguilera, Rodolfo E ^a   Cai, Yan ^a   Patel, Neil ^a   Bessette, Jonathan T ^a   Romagnoli, Marco ^a,b   Kimerling, Lionel C ^a   Michel, Jurgen ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b PhotonIC Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GERMANIUM; HETEROJUNCTIONS; PHOSPHORUS; SEMICONDUCTOR DIODES;

ELECTRICALLY PUMPED; GAIN SPECTRA; GERMANIUM LASERS; GERMANIUM ON SILICONS; HETEROJUNCTION DIODES; MULTIMODE LASER; OUTPUT POWER; PHOSPHOROUS DOPING; ROOM TEMPERATURE;

PUMPING (LASER);

EID: 84861108534     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.011316     Document Type: Article

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