Pulse trapping and nonequilibrium spatiotemporal wave mixing in broad-area semiconductor lasers

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 2861-2867

  Gehrig, E ^a   Hess, O ^b,c  

^a Rheinland Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern Landau   (Germany)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

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EID: 0032279184     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.15.002861     Document Type: Article

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17. Although the self-focusing processes may in general depend on the particular spatial shape of the input pulses and their power densities, the conditions assumed here can be considered typical; i.e., within a large variation of input intensities, only minor quantitative changes in the behavior have been observed in the simulations.