Self-pulsation in vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers as a result of the interplay between carrier-induced antiguiding and built-in index guiding

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1192-1198

  Panajotov, Krassimir ^a,b   Van der Sande, Guy ^a   Thienpont, Hugo ^a   Veretennicoff, Irina ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b INSTITUTE OF SOLID STATE PHYSICS   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

CARRIER INDUCED ANTIGUIDING; SELF SUSTAINED PULSATIONS; VERTICAL CAVITY SURFACE EMITTING LASERS;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 10044290767     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.21.001192     Document Type: Article

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