Dynamics of two-color laser systems with spectrally filtered feedback

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1758-1771

  Matus, Marcelo ^a   Kolesik, Miroslav ^a   Moloney, Jerome V ^a   Hofmann, Martin ^b   Koch, Stephan W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^c PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAOS THEORY; COHERENT LIGHT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT MODULATION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

OPTICAL SYSTEM SIMULATOR; TWO COLOR LASER SYSTEMS;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 10044234137     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.21.001758     Document Type: Article

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