Dynamics of actively mode-locked Quantum Cascade Lasers

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 13, 2010, Pages 13616-13630

  Gkortsas, V M ^a   Wang, C ^b   Kuznetsova, L ^c   Diehl, L ^c   Gordon, A ^a   Jirauschek, C ^d   Belkin, M A ^b   Belyanin, A ^e   Capasso, F ^c   Kartner F X ^a  

^a USA   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^e TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; METAL RECOVERY; MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS; PUMPS;

GAIN SATURATION; LASER DYNAMICS; MODE-LOCKED; MODELOCKING; MULTIMODE LASING; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PULSE DURATIONS; PULSE FORMATION; PULSE SHAPES; ROUNDTRIP; SINGLE MODE LASING; SPATIAL HOLE BURNING; STEADY STATE;

LASER MODE LOCKING;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIODE LASER; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INFRARED RADIATION; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; OPTICS; SEMICONDUCTOR; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INFRARED RAYS; LASERS, SEMICONDUCTOR; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; SEMICONDUCTORS;

EID: 77953842258     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.013616     Document Type: Article

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