Distributed Feedback Lasers in Chiral Media

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 1994, Pages 339-345

  Flood, Kevin M ^a   Jaggard, Dwight L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MODULATION; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

CHIRAL MEDIA; DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASERS;

LASERS;

EID: 0028381391     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: 15581713     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.283779     Document Type: Article

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