Emission directionality of semiconductor ring lasers: A traveling-wave description

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 431-438

  Javaloyes, Julien ^a   Balle, Salvador ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Coupled cavities; Ring lasers; Semiconductor lasers; Thermal effects; Traveling wave modeling

Indexed keywords

CARRIER DENSITY; CAVITY LOSS; COUPLED CAVITIES; COUPLED CAVITY; EMISSION DIRECTIONALITY; GAIN SPECTRA; LIGHT EXTRACTION; OPERATION CURRENTS; SEMICONDUCTOR RING LASERS; SPATIAL HOLE BURNING; THERMAL SHIFT; TRAVELING WAVE;

LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

RING LASERS;

EID: 72549098552     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2009.2014079     Document Type: Article

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