Nonlinear coupling of transverse modes in quantum cascade lasers

Optical Engineering

Volumn 49, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Wójcik, Aleksander K ^a   Yu, Nanfang ^b   Diehl, Laurent ^b   Capasso, Federico ^b   Belyanin, Alexey ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

mode locking; nonlinear optics; phase coherence; quantum cascade lasers

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL MODEL; BEAM-STEERING; BI-STABILITY; BURIED HETEROSTRUCTURES; COHERENT COUPLING; EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; MID-INFRARED QUANTUM CASCADE; MODAL DYNAMICS; MODELOCKING; MULTIMODE OPERATIONS; NONLINEAR COUPLING; NONLINEAR PHASE; PHASE COHERENCE; PHASE FLUCTUATION; PHASE-LOCKING; THEORETICAL RESULT; TRANSVERSE MODE;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS; QUANTUM THEORY;

LASER MODE LOCKING;

EID: 79953872209     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3498773     Document Type: Article

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