Spontaneous spatiotemporal instabilities in current modulated master oscillator power amplifier lasers

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1229-1231

  Moloney, J V ^a   Egan, A ^a   Ning, C Z ^a,b   Indik, R A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic propagation; Laser resonators; Modulation demodulation; Semi conductor lasers; Semiconductor device modeling

Indexed keywords

LASER RESONATORS; LIGHT MODULATION; MIRRORS; POWER AMPLIFIERS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MODELS;

CURRENT MODULATED MASTER OSCILLATORS; DISTRIBUTED BRAGG REFLECTORS;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 0032163250     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.705599     Document Type: Article

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