Dynamics of optically-injected semiconductor lasers using the travelling-wave approach

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 220-227

  Stolz, Christopher A ^a   Labukhin, Dmitry ^a   Zakhleniuk, Nickolay A ^a   Adams, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Distributed feedback lasers; Injection locked oscillators; Nonlinearities; Semiconductor lasers; Stability

Indexed keywords

CARRIER DISTRIBUTIONS; CHAOTIC SIGNAL; COUPLING COEFFICIENT; DYNAMICAL STATE; INJECTION LOCKED OSCILLATORS; INTERSECTION POINTS; LOCKING BANDWIDTH; NON-LINEARITY; NONLINEARITIES; POINCARE; QUARTER WAVES; SOLITARY LASER; STABILITY MAP; TRANSMITTED LIGHT; WAVE APPROACH; WAVE MODELS;

DYNAMICS; LASERS; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SYSTEM STABILITY;

DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASERS;

EID: 73949143943     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2009.2030511     Document Type: Article

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