Spatiotemporal emission dynamics of a broad-area semiconductor laser in an external cavity: Stabilization and feedback-induced instabilities

Optics Communications

Volumn 244, Issue 1-6, 2005, Pages 355-365

  Mandre, Shyam K ^a   Fischer, Ingo ^a   Elsäßer, Wolfgang ^a  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Broad area semiconductor laser; Chaos control; Delay instabilities; Laser resonators; Spatiotemporal dynamics

Indexed keywords

FILTRATION; LASER RESONATORS; REDUCTION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; STABILIZATION;

BROAD-AREA SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; CHAOS CONTROL; DELAY-INSTABILITIES; SPATIOTEMPORAL DYNAMICS;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 10844224315     PISSN: 00304018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.optcom.2004.09.058     Document Type: Article

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