Instabilities in spin-polarized vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers

IEEE Photonics Journal

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 799-809

  Al Seyab, Rihab ^a   Alexandropoulos, Dimitris ^a,b   Henning, Ian D ^a   Adams, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Largest Lyapunov exponent (LLE); optical pumping; spin flip model; spin polarized vertical cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSELs)

Indexed keywords

DEVICE PARAMETERS; HIGH-FREQUENCY APPLICATIONS; LARGEST LYAPUNOV EXPONENT; LINEWIDTH ENHANCEMENT FACTOR; NEW FORMS; OPTICAL PUMPS; OPTICALLY PUMPED; SPIN-FLIP MODEL; SPIN-POLARIZED; STABILITY AND INSTABILITY; VERTICAL-CAVITY SURFACE EMITTING LASER;

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; LYAPUNOV FUNCTIONS; LYAPUNOV METHODS; OPTICAL PUMPING; OPTICALLY PUMPED LASERS;

SURFACE EMITTING LASERS;

EID: 80052879533     PISSN: 19430655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPHOT.2011.2165205     Document Type: Article

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