Q-switching instability in a mode-locked semiconductor laser

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 663-670

  Rachinskii, Dmitrii ^a   Vladimirov, Andrei ^b   Bandelow, Uwe ^b   Hüttl, Bernd ^c   Kaiser, Ronald ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b WEIERSTRASS INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED ANALYSIS AND STOCHASTICS   (Germany)

^c FRAUNHOFER HEINRICH HERTZ INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); CURVE FITTING; LASER MODE LOCKING; OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS; Q SWITCHED LASERS; Q SWITCHING; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; STABILITY;

NEIMARK-SACKER BIFURCATION CURVE; Q-SWITCHING INSTABILITY; RING-CAVITY SEMICONDUCTOR LASER;

LASER MODES;

EID: 33744786771     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.23.000663     Document Type: Article

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