Mode-locking of monolithic laser diodes incorporating coupled-resonator optical waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 4539-4553

  Liu, Yang ^a   Wang, Zheng ^a   Han, Minghui ^a   Fan, Shanhui ^a   Dutton, Robert ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LASER MODE LOCKING; LASER RESONATORS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

AMPLITUDE PHASE COUPLING; CAVITY RESONANT FREQUENCIES; COUPLED-RESONATOR OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; MONOLITHIC LASER DIODES;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 22744436471     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.004539     Document Type: Article

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