Bifurcations of a DFB Laser with Short Optical Feedback: Numerical Experiment

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4986, Issue , 2003, Pages 480-489

  Korneyev, Nikolay ^a   Radžiunas, Mindaugas ^b   Wünsche, Hans Jürgen ^a,c   Henneberger, Fritz ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b WEIERSTRASS INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED ANALYSIS AND STOCHASTICS   (Germany)

^c FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bifurcation; Distributed feedback; Optical feedback; Semiconductor laser; Short delay limit

Indexed keywords

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODULATION; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; OSCILLATIONS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

HOPF BIFURCATIONS;

DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASERS;

EID: 0242524374     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.478951     Document Type: Conference Paper

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