Controlling filamentation in broad-area semiconductor lasers and amplifiers

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 69, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 593-595

  Marciante, John R ^a,b   Agrawal, Govind P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); CARRIER CONCENTRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; ENERGY GAP; ITERATIVE METHODS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

BEAM PROPAGATION METHOD; EPITAXIAL LAYERS; FILAMENTATION; LATERAL MODE STABILITY; SELF DEFOCUSING;

MULTILAYERS;

EID: 0030188857     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.117917     Document Type: Article

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