Self-pulsation dynamics in narrow stripe semiconductor lasers

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 381-388

  Landais, Pascal ^a   Lynch, Stephen A ^b   O'Gorman, James ^c   Fischer, Ingo ^d   Elsäßer, Wolfgang ^e  

^a DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c Unit 32 Trinity Technology and Enterprise Campus   (Ireland)

^d VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^e DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Self focusing; Self pulsation (SP); Semiconductor lasers; Spectral hole burning; Wave guide

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; FOCUSING; LASER PULSES; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

NARROW STRIPE EDGE EMITTING SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SELF-FOCUSING; SELF-PULSATION DYNAMICS; SPECTRAL-HOLE BURNING;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 33645129786     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2006.872309     Document Type: Article

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