Stabilization of chaotic spatiotemporal filamentation in large broad area lasers by spatially structured optical feedback

Optics Express

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 48-54

  Simmendinger, Christian ^a,b   Preißer, Dietmar ^a   Hess, Ortwin ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAOS THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEEDBACK; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

DELAYED OPTICAL FEEDBACK (DOF); MICROSCOPIC SCALES;

LASER OPTICS;

EID: 0001872151     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.5.000048     Document Type: Article

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