• DocumentCode
    1678009
  • Title

    Thermal and electrical beam steering on a GaInAs/GaAs slow-light Bragg waveguide amplifier

  • Author

    Xiaodong Gu ; Shimada, Toshikazu ; Fuchida, Ayumi ; Matsutani, Akihiro ; Imamura, Akihiro ; Koyama, Fumio

  • Author_Institution
    Precision & Intell. Lab., Tokyo Inst. of Technol., Yokohama, Japan
  • fYear
    2012
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    Thermal beam steering over 7° is realized on a slow-light waveguide amplifier with a narrow divergence angle below 0.3°. Measured data well agrees with theoretical calculations. Also we present electro-thermal beam steering by current injection.
  • Keywords
    III-V semiconductors; beam steering; distributed Bragg reflectors; gallium arsenide; semiconductor optical amplifiers; slow light; waveguide lasers; GaInAs-GaAs; current injection; electrical beam steering; electro-thermal beam steering; narrow divergence angle; slow-light Bragg waveguide amplifier; thermal beam steering; Beam steering; Current measurement; Heating; Laser beams; Optical waveguides; Optimized production technology; Temperature measurement;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2012 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-1839-6
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6326576