Holographic injection locking of a broad area laser diode via a photorefractive thin-film device

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 26, 2007, Pages 17587-17591

  Van Voorst, P D ^a   De Wit, M R ^a   Offerhaus, H L ^a   Tay, S ^b   Thomas, J ^b   Peyghambarian, N ^b   Boller, K J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOUR WAVE MIXING; HOLOGRAPHY; LINEWIDTH; PHOTOREFRACTIVE CRYSTALS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; THIN FILM DEVICES;

INJECTION LOCKING; SINGLE FREQUENCY;

LASER MODE LOCKING;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; DIODE LASER; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HOLOGRAPHY; INSTRUMENTATION; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HOLOGRAPHY; LASERS, SEMICONDUCTOR; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 37549013015     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.017587     Document Type: Article

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