Surface-Emitting Tapered Unstable Resonator Laser with Integrated Focusing Grating Coupler

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 1319-1321

  Kristjansson, Sigurgeir ^a   Eriksson, Niklas ^a   Modh, Peter ^a   Larsson, Anders ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Gratings; laser beam focusing; laser resonators; optical planar waveguide couplers; semiconductor lasers; surface emitting lasers

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008010135     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: 19410174     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.883816     Document Type: Article

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