Nonlinear mechanisms of filamentation in broad-area semiconductor lasers

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 590-596

  Marciante, John R ^b,c,d,e,f,g   Agrawal, Govind P ^a,b,h,i,j,k  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^c AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^e AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^f Phillips Laboratory

^g Institute of Optics

^h UNIVERSITY OF LUCKNOW   (India)

ⁱ INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

^j CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^k OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; LASER MODES; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; PERMITTIVITY; PUMPING (LASER); REFRACTIVE INDEX; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MODELS; VECTORS;

BEAM FILAMENTATION; CARRIER INDUCED INDEX CHARGE; HELMHOLTZ EQUATION; INTENSITY DEPENDENT INDEX; LINEWIDTH ENHANCEMENT FACTOR; SELF FOCUSING; WAVE EQUATION;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 0030129815     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.488831     Document Type: Article

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