Microscopic modeling of vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers: Many-body interaction, plasma heating, and transverse dynamics

Optical Engineering

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1175-1181

  Ning, C Z ^a   Bischoff, Svend ^b   Koch, Stephan W ^b   Harkness, G K ^c   Moloney, Jerome V ^c   Chow, Weng W ^d  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Bloch equations; Mode dynamics; Plasma heating; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSELs)

Indexed keywords

EID: 1542576771     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.602032     Document Type: Article

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