High Modulation Bandwidth Implant-Confined Photonic Crystal Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 19, Issue 19, 2007, Pages 1541-1543

  Bin Alias, Mohd Sharizal ^c   Mat Sharif, Khairul Anuar ^c   Sulkin, Joshua D ^a   Choquette, Kent D ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b NLIGHT CORPORATION   (United States)

^c Telekom Research and Development Sdn Bhd   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Diode lasers; modulation; photonic crystal; vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL)

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008048207     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: 19410174     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2007.903884     Document Type: Article

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