Analysis of Nd:MgO:Ti:LiNbO3 waveguide lasers with nonuniform concentration distributions

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 2268-2276

  Lee, Ching Ting ^a,b,c,d,e   Sheu, Lih Gen ^b  

^a IEEE

^b NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Chung Shan Inst Sci and Technol

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; CRYSTALS; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; LIGHT EMISSION; LITHIUM COMPOUNDS; MAGNESIA; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIRRORS; NEODYMIUM; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE STRUCTURES; TITANIUM;

AMPLIFIED SPONTANEOUS EMISSION; EVOLUTION EQUATIONS; PUMPING LIGHT; WAVEGUIDE LASER;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 0030263093     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/50.541218     Document Type: Article

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