Investigation of threshold transition in semiconductor lasers

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 485-490

  Toffano, Zeno ^a,b,c,d,e  

^a IEEE   (France)

^b SUPELEC   (France)

^c Université d'Orsay   (France)

^d SUPELEC   (France)

^e CEA SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

Laser measurement applications; Laser noise; Optical spectroscopy; Semiconductor lasers

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; LASER TUNING; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MODELS;

FOKKER PLANCK METHOD; LINEWIDTH MEASUREMENTS; OPTICAL SPECTROSCOPY;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 0031108815     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/2944.605698     Document Type: Article

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