Modeling and direct electric-field measurements of passively mode-locked quantum-dot lasers

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 653-660

  Usechak, Nicholas G ^a   Xin, Yongchun ^b   Lin, Chang Yi ^c   Lester, Luke F ^c   Kane, Daniel J ^d   Kovanis, Vassilios ^a  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b IBM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^d SOUTHWEST SCIENCES INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Delay differential equations (DDEs); Mode locked semiconductor lasers; Quantum dot lasers

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATORS; DELAY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; DELAY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS (DDES); FREQUENCY-RESOLVED OPTICAL GATING; MODE-LOCKED SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; PASSIVELY MODE-LOCKED; PULSE STRUCTURES; QUANTUM-DOT LASERS;

CHANNEL CAPACITY; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ELECTRIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; LASERS; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; SECURITY OF DATA; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 67650863147     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2008.2012268     Document Type: Article

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