Power- or frequency-driven hysteresis for continuous-wave optically injected distributed-feedback semiconductor lasers

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 9288-9299

  Blin, Stéphane ^a   Vaudel, Olivier ^a   Besnard, Pascal ^a   Gabet, Renaud ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^b INSTITUT TELECOM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASERS; HYSTERESIS; PUMPING (LASER); SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK SEMICONDUCTOR LASER; FREQUENCY DIFFERENCES; LONGITUDINAL MODES; NUMERICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; OPTICALLY INJECTED SEMICONDUCTOR LASER; RELAXATION OSCILLATION; SYSTEMATIC MAPPING; VARYING PARAMETERS;

INJECTION LASERS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; DIODE LASER; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; INSTRUMENTATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEEDBACK; LASERS, SEMICONDUCTOR; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 66549100280     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.009288     Document Type: Article

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