Extremely short external cavity lasers: Direct semiconductor laser readout modeling by using finite difference time domain calculations

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4595, Issue , 2001, Pages 163-173

  Aikio, Janne K ^a   Kataja, Kari J ^a,b   Howe, Dennis G ^b  

^a VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Extremely short external cavity semiconductor laser; Finite difference time domain method; Optical data storage

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; LIGHT REFLECTION; OPTICAL DATA STORAGE; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

EXTERNAL CAVITY (ESEC) LASERS;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 0035772720     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.446606     Document Type: Article

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