Fast and Digitally Wavelength-Tunable Semiconductor Ring Laser Using a Monolithically Integrated Distributed Bragg Reflector

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 20, Issue 23, 2008, Pages 1926-1928

  Furst S ^a   Sorel, M ^a   Yu, S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Semiconductor ring lasers (SRLs); tunable lasers

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008052617     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: 19410174     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2008.2005000     Document Type: Article

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