Criterion of External Feedback Sensitivity in Index-Coupled and Gain-Coupled DFB Semiconductor Lasers to be Free from Excess Intensity Noise

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 1994, Pages 3-9

  Suhara, Michihiko ^a   Yamada, Minoru ^a   Islam, Saiful ^a,b  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b BANGLADESH UNIVERSITY OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; LIGHT REFLECTION; PHASE MODULATION; PHASE SHIFT; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MODELS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE STRUCTURES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

BRAGG WAVELENGTH; EXCESS INTENSITY NOISE; EXTERNAL OPTICAL FEEDBACK; FACET REFLECTION; GAIN COUPLED DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASERS; INDEX COUPLED DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASERS; INTERNAL GRATING; PHASE RELATION;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 0028203028     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: 15581713     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.272053     Document Type: Article

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