Third-order nonlinearity induced lateral-mode frequency locking and beam instability in the high-power operation of narrow-ridge semiconductor lasers

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1447-1454

  Fu, Xiaoli ^b   Tan, G L ^a,b   Gordon, R ^a,b   Xu, J M ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Beam steering; Frequency locking; Lateral mode; Nonlinear optics; Optical bistability; Semiconductor lasers; Wave mixing

Indexed keywords

LASER BEAMS; LASER MODE LOCKING; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL BISTABILITY; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MODELS;

LASER BEAM STEERING;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 0032139026     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.704339     Document Type: Article

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