Characterization of fiber distributed-feedback lasers with an index-perturbation method

Applied Optics

Volumn 38, Issue 21, 1999, Pages 4558-4565

  Rønnekleiv, Erlend ^a,b   Ibsen, Morten ^c   Zervas, Michael N ^c   Laming, Richard I ^c  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b Optoplan AS   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BIREFRINGENCE; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; ERROR ANALYSIS; FIBER LASERS; LASER MODES; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PHASE SHIFT; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

HEAT PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES;

DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASERS;

EID: 0032620983     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.38.004558     Document Type: Article

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