Parabolic-confocal unstable-resonator semiconductor lasers - Modeling and experiments

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 858-868

  Eriksson, Niklas ^a   Larsson, Anders ^a   Uemukai, Masahiro ^b   Suhara, Toshiaki ^b  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Distributed Bragg reflector lasers; Laser resonators; Optical propagation in nonlinear media; Semiconductor lasers; Surface emitting lasers

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LASER BEAMS; LASER MODES; LASER RESONATORS; MIRRORS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MODELS; THERMAL EFFECTS; WAVEFRONTS;

BEAM PROPAGATION METHOD; DISTRIBUTED BRAGG REFLECTOR LASERS; PARABOLIC CONFOCAL UNSTABLE RESONATOR SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SURFACE EMITTING LASERS;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 0032075054     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.668774     Document Type: Article

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