Long-wavelength VCSEL using high-contrast grating

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Rao, Yi ^a   Yang, Weijian ^a   Chase, Christopher ^b   Huang, Michael C Y ^b   Worland, D Philip ^b   Khaleghi, Salman ^c   Chitgarha, Mohammad Reza ^c   Ziyadi, Morteza ^c   Willner, Alan E ^c   Chang Hasnain, Connie J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Bandwidth10 Inc   (United States)

^c University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

High contrast subwavelength grating; laser linewidth; optical communication; optical MEMS; vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL)

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND REFLECTIVITY; CONTINUOUS WAVE OPERATION; CONTINUOUS WAVELENGTH TUNING; HIGH CONTRAST GRATING (HCG); LASER LINE-WIDTH; MICRO-ELECTRO-MECHANICAL; SUB-WAVE LENGTH GRATING; VERTICAL-CAVITY SURFACE EMITTING LASER;

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; LINEWIDTH; MEMS; MICROOPTICS; MOEMS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SINGLE MODE FIBERS; SURFACE EMITTING LASERS;

DISPERSION (WAVES);

EID: 84877856454     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2013.2246780     Document Type: Article

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