Self-Organization in Semiconductor Lasers with Ultrashort Optical Feedback

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 439021-439024

  Ushakov, O ^a   Bauer, S ^b   Brox, O ^b   Wunsche H J ^a   Henneberger, F ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER HEINRICH HERTZ INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); CATHODE RAY OSCILLOSCOPES; DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASERS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; FEEDBACK; HARMONIC GENERATION; HYSTERESIS; OSCILLATIONS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; RELAXATION PROCESSES; TRANSPARENCY;

FEEDBACK DELAY; HOPF BIFURCATIONS; OPTICAL FEEDBACK;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 1442331412     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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