Dynamical regimes in a monolithic passively mode-locked quantum dot laser

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2102-2109

  Vladimirov, Andrei G ^a   Bandelow, Uwe ^a   Fiol, Gerrit ^b   Arsenijević, Dejan ^b   Kleinert, Moritz ^b   Bimberg, Dieter ^b   Pimenov, Alexander ^c   Rachinskii, Dmitrii ^c  

^a WEIERSTRASS INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED ANALYSIS AND STOCHASTICS   (Germany)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASERS; MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS; Q SWITCHING; QUANTUM DOT LASERS; QUANTUM THEORY; QUANTUM WELL LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

BI-STABILITY; DIFFERENT MODES; DYNAMICAL REGIME; MODE-LOCKED LASER; MODE-LOCKED PULSE; OPERATION REGIME; PASSIVELY MODE-LOCKED; Q-SWITCHED MODE-LOCKING; Q-SWITCHING INSTABILITIES; QUANTUM DOTS; TWO SECTION; WELL STRUCTURE;

LASER MODE LOCKING;

EID: 77957864171     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.27.002102     Document Type: Article

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