Dynamics of an electrooptically tunable microchip laser

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 208-217

  Li, Y ^a   Goldwasser, Samuel M ^a   Herczfeld, Peter R ^a   Narducci, L M ^a  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

FM operation; Frequency switching; Maxwell bloch formulation; Microchip laser

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC SOLUTION; CAVITY LENGTH; DYNAMICAL BEHAVIORS; FREE SPECTRAL RANGE; INTRACAVITIES; LARGE-SIGNALS; LASER RELAXATION; MAXWELL-BLOCH EQUATION; MICROCHIP LASERS; MODULATION FREQUENCIES; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; OPERATION FREQUENCY; TIME-VARYING PERTURBATIONS; UNIDIRECTIONAL RING CAVITY; WAVE PROPAGATION EQUATIONS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FREQUENCY MODULATION; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; TUNING;

MAXWELL EQUATIONS;

EID: 33646868676     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2005.862028     Document Type: Article

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