Theory of grating-confined broad-area lasers

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 34, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 2196-2209

  Lang, Robert J ^a,b   Dzurko, Ken ^b   Hardy, Amos A ^a,b,c   Demars, Scott ^b   Schoenfelder, Alexander ^b   Welch, David F ^b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b SDL INC   (United States)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASERS; LASER MODES; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

GRATING CONFINED BROAD AREA LASERS; TRANSFER MATRIX ANALYSIS;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 0032204384     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.726614     Document Type: Article

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