An Improved Analysis of Semiconductor Laser Dynamics Under Strong Optical Feedback

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1265-1274

  Abdulrhmann, Salah G ^a   Ahmed, Moustafa ^b   Okamoto, Takaharu ^c   Ishimori, Wataro ^a   Yamada, Minoru ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Minia University ^*  (Egypt)

^c NTT DATA Corporation   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chaos; External cavity; Optical feedback (OFB); Pulsation; Semiconductor lasers; Time delay

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CHAOS THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; LASER PULSES; LIGHT REFLECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL FIBERS;

EXTERNAL CAVITY; OPTICAL FEEDBACK (OFB); PULSATION; TIME DELAY;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 1342303545     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2003.819500     Document Type: Conference Paper

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