Numerical simulation of optical Stark effect saturable absorbers in mode-locked femtosecond VECSELs using a modified two-level atom model

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 27, 2011, Pages 26783-26795

  Quarterman, A H ^a   Carswell, S ^a   Daniell, G J ^a   Mihoubi, Z ^a   Wilcox, K G ^a   Chung, A L ^a   Apostolopoulos, V ^a   Tropper, A C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLEACHING; CLEANING; ELECTRON SCATTERING; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; STARK EFFECT;

CARRIER DISTRIBUTIONS; CARRIER-CARRIER SCATTERING; FEMTOSECONDS; LIMIT SETS; LONG PULSE; MODE-LOCKED; OPTICAL PULSE; OPTICAL STARK EFFECT; PULSE DURATIONS; PULSE SHORTENING; PULSE-SHAPING; QUANTUM WELL SATURABLE ABSORBERS; SATURABLE ABSORBERS; SATURABLE ABSORPTION; SPECTRAL-HOLE BURNING; TEMPORAL ABSORPTION; TIME-SCALES; TWO-LEVEL ATOM;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ABSORPTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84555177229     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.026783     Document Type: Article

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