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Multi-Beam Multi-Wavelength Semiconductor Lasers

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2009

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American Institute of Physics
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Yu, Nanfang, Mikhail A. Kats, Christian Pflügl, Markus Geiser, Qi Jie Wang, Mikhail A. Belkin, Federico Capasso, et al. 2009. Multi-beam multi-wavelength semiconductor lasers. In Lasers, Optics, and Optoelectronics. Special Issue. Applied Physics Letters 95(16): 161108.

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Multibeam emission and spatial wavelength demultiplexing in semiconductor lasers by patterning their facets with plasmonic structures is reported. Specifically, a single-wavelength laser was made to emit beams in two directions by defining on its facet two metallic gratings with different periods. The output of a dual-color laser was spatially separated according to wavelength by using a single metallic grating. The designs can be integrated with a broad range of active or passive optical components for applications such as interferometry and demultiplexing.

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demultiplexing equipment, diffraction gratings, integrated optics, laser beams, optical communication equipment, optical design techniques, plasmonics, semiconductor lasers

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