Lateral mode dynamics in high power wide aperture quantum dot laser

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6468, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Mukherjee, Jayanta ^a   McInerney, John G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Current spreading; FEM; Modal dynamics; Quantum dot laser; Thermal model

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; MODAL ANALYSIS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

CURRENT SPREADING; MODAL DYNAMICS; QUANTUM DOT LASERS; THERMAL MODELS;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 34248581388     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.700691     Document Type: Conference Paper

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