Modal competition via four-wave mixing in single-mode extended-cavity semiconductor lasers

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 970-981

  Godard, Antoine ^a   Pauliat, Gilles ^b   Roosen, Gérald ^b   Ducloux, Eric ^c  

^a ONERA   (France)

^b UNIV PARIS SUD   (France)

^c NetTest Photonics   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; FOUR WAVE MIXING; LASER PULSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; WAVE EQUATIONS;

EXTENDED CAVITY; EXTENDED CAVITY SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; MODE COUPLING PHENOMENA; NONLINEAR WAVE MIXING; PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSLATOR; SINGLE MODE OPERATION;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 3943064341     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2004.831639     Document Type: Article

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