High-sweep-rate 1310nm MEMS-VCSEL with 150nm continuous tuning range

Electronics Letters

Volumn 48, Issue 14, 2012, Pages 867-869

  Jayaraman, V ^a   Cole, G D ^b   Robertson, M ^a   Uddin, A ^a   Cable, A ^c  

^a Praevium Research Inc   (United States)

^b Advanced Optical Microsystems   (United States)

^c THORLABS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE REGIONS; CONTINUOUS TUNING; CONTINUOUS TUNING RANGE; FREE SPECTRAL RANGE; HIGH-SPEED; OPTICALLY PUMPED; SWEPT SOURCE OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHIES; TRANSIENT SPECTROSCOPY; TUNING RANGES; VERTICAL-CAVITY SURFACE EMITTING LASER;

BANDWIDTH; INDIUM PHOSPHIDE; MIRRORS; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; SURFACE EMITTING LASERS;

MOEMS;

EID: 84863706284     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el.2012.1552     Document Type: Article

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