Dynamic instabilities in master oscillator power amplifier semiconductor lasers

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 166-170

  Egan, A ^a   Ning, C Z ^b   Moloney, J V ^a   Indik, R A ^a   Wright, M W ^c   Bessert, D J ^c   McInerney, J G ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOURIER TRANSFORMS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); POWER AMPLIFIERS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MODELS;

INVERSE FOURIER TRANSFORM; MASTER OSCILLATOR POWER AMPLIFIER;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 0031647678     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.655020     Document Type: Article

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