Numerical analysis of microdisk lasers with rough boundaries

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 791-795

  Li, Ng Jing ^a   Liu, Pao Lo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

FDTD methods; Microresonators; Semiconductor lasers

Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; LIGHT SCATTERING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

MICRODISK LASERS; MICRORESONATORS; ROUGH BOUNDARIES; SCATTERING LOSSES;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 0031144690     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.572153     Document Type: Article

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