Interplay of current noise and delayed optical feedback on the dynamics of semiconductor lasers

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 368-374

  Soriano, Miguel C ^a   Berkvens, Thomas ^b,c   Van Der Sande, Guy ^b   Verschaffelt, Guy ^b   Danckaert, Jan ^b   Fischer, Ingo ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS   (Spain)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^c HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Current noise; dynamics; optical feedback; semiconductor lasers

Indexed keywords

CHAOTIC OSCILLATION; CURRENT NOISE; EXTERNAL OPTICAL FEEDBACK; INTENSITY FLUCTUATIONS; LANG-KOBAYASHI; LOW-FREQUENCY CURRENTS; NUMERICAL MODELING; POWER SPECTRUM MEASUREMENTS; RATE EQUATIONS; SINGLE MODE;

DYNAMICS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; LASERS; POWER SPECTRUM; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

FEEDBACK;

EID: 79952045185     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2010.2090511     Document Type: Article

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