Lateral spatial effects of feedback in gain-guided and broad-area semiconductor lasers

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 1630-1635

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c IEEE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; LENSES; LIGHT MODULATION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; LIGHT REFLECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIRRORS; OPTICAL PHASE CONJUGATION;

FRESNEL DIFFRACTION THEORY; GAIN GUIDED LASERS; PHASE CONJUGATE FEEDBACK; SPLIT STEP FOURIER METHOD;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 0030244534     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.535368     Document Type: Article

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