Characteristics of laser cavity solitons in a vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser with feedback from a volume Bragg grating

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1388-1395

  Radwell, Neal ^a   Ackemann, Thorsten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bistability; Cavity soliton laser; Feedback effects; VCSEL

Indexed keywords

BI-STABILITY; CAVITY SOLITONS; CONSTANT POLARIZATION; LASER CAVITY; OPTICAL MANIPULATION; POLARIZATION STATE; POLARIZING ELEMENTS; SINGLE PEAK; SPATIAL INHOMOGENEITIES; TRAPPING STATE; VERTICAL-CAVITY SURFACE EMITTING LASER; VOLUME BRAGG GRATINGS;

LASER RESONATORS; LASERS; POLARIZATION; SOLITONS;

SURFACE EMITTING LASERS;

EID: 67849121813     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2009.2027134     Document Type: Article

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