Feedback induced instabilities in a quantum dot semiconductor laser

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 22, 2006, Pages 10831-10837

  Carroll, Olwen ^a   O'Driscoll, Ian ^a   Hegarty, Stephen P ^a   Huyet, Guillaume ^a   Houlihan, John ^b   Viktorov, Evgeny A ^c   Mandel, Paul ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b Ireland   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAOS THEORY; FEEDBACK; LIGHT EMISSION; MIRRORS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; STABILITY;

FEEDBACK INDUCED INSTABILITY; OPTICAL FEEDBACK; PERIODIC PULSATIONS; POWER DROP OUTS;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 33750714759     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.010831     Document Type: Article

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