Ultrafast nonlinear dynamics of whispering-gallery mode micro-cavity lasers

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 2744-2752

  Klaedtke, A ^a   Hess, O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE EMISSION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; HAMILTONIANS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; RELAXATION OSCILLATORS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA;

MAXWELL-BLOCH EQUATIONS; OPTICAL BLOCH EQUATIONS; ULTRAFAST SPATIO-TEMPORAL DYNAMICS; WHISPERING-GALLERY MICRO-CAVITY LASERS;

LASERS;

EID: 33645527823     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.002744     Document Type: Article

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