Mode-locking dynamics in electrically driven vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting lasers

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 41, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1148-1156

  Mulet, Josep ^a   Balle, Salvador ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Mode locked lasers; Semiconductor device modeling; Semiconductor lasers; Surface emitting lasers

Indexed keywords

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; LASER MODE LOCKING; LASER PULSES; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MIRRORS; QUANTUM WELL LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MODELS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE STRUCTURES; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; WAVE EQUATIONS;

MODE LOCKED LASERS; SURFACE-EMITTING LASERS; TRAVELING-WAVE EQUATIONS; VERTICAL-EXTERNAL-CAVITY SURFACE-EMITTING LASERS (VECSELS);

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 24744449754     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2005.853355     Document Type: Article

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