Additional modal selectivity induced by a localized defect in quarter-wave-shifted DFB lasers

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 602-608

  Fessant, Thierry ^a   Boucher, Yann ^a  

^a Ecole Nationale d'Ingenieurs de Brest   (France)

Author keywords

Coupled mode analysis; Distributed feedback laser; Localized impurity; Modal overlap; Scattering center; Semiconductor laser

Indexed keywords

EID: 0005766425     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.663433     Document Type: Article

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