Dynamics of frequency shifted feedback lasers: Simulation studies

Optics Express

Volumn 11, Issue 17, 2003, Pages 2060-2080

  Stellpflug, M ^a,b   Bonnet, G ^a,c   Shore, B W ^a,d   Bergmann, K ^a  

^a University of Koblenz Landau   (Germany)

^b NONE   (Germany)

^c NONE   (Germany)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; DIFFERENCE EQUATIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FREQUENCY MODULATION; MAPPING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MONOCHROMATORS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PHOTONS; PROBABILITY; RANDOM PROCESSES; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

FREE SPECTRAL RANGE (FSR); FREQUENCY SHIFTED FEEDBACK (FSF); FULL WIDTH AT MAXIMUM (FWHM); NOISY SPECTRUM;

LASERS;

EID: 2342499630     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.11.002060     Document Type: Article

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