MEMS-Tunable 1.55-μm VCSEL With Extended Tuning Range Incorporating a Buried Tunnel Junction

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 688-690

  Meissner, Peter ^b   Amann, Markus Christian ^b   Bühm, Gerhard ^a  

^a WALTER SCHOTTKY INSTITUT   (Germany)

^b DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS); semi conductor lasers; tunable lasers; vertical cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSELs)

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008022373     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: 19410174     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2006.870066     Document Type: Article

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