Measurement of the coupling constant in a two-frequency VECSEL

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 5008-5014

  Pal, V ^a   Trofimoff, P ^b   Miranda, B X ^b,d   Baili, G ^c   Alouini, M ^c,d   Morvan, L ^c   Dolfi, D ^c   Goldfarb, F ^b   Sagnes, I ^e   Ghosh, R ^a   Bretenaker, F ^b  

^a JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b LABORATOIRE AIMÉ COTTON   (France)

^c THALES RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^e CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASERS; SURFACE EMITTING LASERS;

COUPLING CONSTANTS; EIGENSTATES; FREQUENCY OPERATION; POLARIZED MODES; SPATIAL SEPARATION; VECSEL; VERTICAL EXTERNAL CAVITY SURFACE EMITTING LASER;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 77749258455     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.005008     Document Type: Article

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