Strongly sub-poissonaian electrical noise in 1.55-μm DBR tunable laser diodes

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 852-857

  Myara, Mikhaël ^a   Signoret, Philippe ^a   Tourrenc, Jean Philippe ^a   Perez, Jean Philippe ^a   Orsal, Bernard ^a   Jacquet, Joël ^b  

^a UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^b NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; ELECTRIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; ELECTRONS; LASER TUNING; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT EMISSION; POISSON EQUATION; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MODELS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

BISTRIBUTED BRAGG REFLECTOR LASERS; BRAGG SECTION EFFECTS; ELECTRICAL CORRELATION EMTHOD; ELECTRICAL NOISE MEASUREMENT; RATE EQUATION FORMALISM; SUB-POISSONIAN NOISE; TERMINAL ELECTRIC NOISE;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 3142658828     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2004.830203     Document Type: Article

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