Characteristics of a semiconductor laser coupled with a fiber Bragg grating with arbitrary amount of feedback

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1216-1228

  Naumenko, Alexander ^b   Besnard, Pascal ^a   Loiko, Natalia ^b   Ughetto, G ^c   Bertreux, J C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^b B I STEPANOV INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Belarus)

^c NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Fiber Bragg grating (FBG); Relative intensity noise (RIN); Semiconductor laser

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEEDBACK; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; GREEN'S FUNCTION; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

INTERNAL CAVITY RESONANCES; OPTICAL FEEDBACK; RELATIVE INTENSITY NOISE; SINGLE-LONGITUDINAL MODE DEVICE;

FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS;

EID: 0142087557     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2003.817669     Document Type: Article

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