Traveling wave modeling of semiconductor ring lasers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6997, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Radziunas, Mindaugas ^a  

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

Author keywords

Alternate oscillations; Analysis; Bistability; Optical modes; Semiconductor ring laser; Switching; Traveling wave model; Unidirectional

Indexed keywords

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; DYNAMICS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; HETEROJUNCTIONS; INTEGRATION; LASERS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS;

ALTERNATE OSCILLATIONS; ANALYSIS; BISTABILITY; OPTICAL MODES; SEMICONDUCTOR RING LASER; SWITCHING; TRAVELING WAVE MODEL; UNIDIRECTIONAL;

RING LASERS;

EID: 50349101346     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.781354     Document Type: Conference Paper

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