Four-wave mixing analysis of quantum dot semiconductor lasers for linewidth enhancement factor extraction

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 101-110

  Lin, Chih Hao ^a   Lin, Hung Hsin ^a   Lin, Fan Yi ^a  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURVE FITTING; DECAY (ORGANIC); LINEWIDTH; MIXING; PARAMETER EXTRACTION; POWER SPECTRUM; QUANTUM DOT LASERS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

ALL-AT-ONCE; CARRIER DECAY; DETUNING FREQUENCY; DIFFERENTIAL GAIN; LASER PARAMETERS; LINEWIDTH ENHANCEMENT FACTOR; OPERATING CONDITION; PHOTON DECAY; POWER-SPECTRA; QD LASERS; QUANTUM DOT SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; RATE EQUATIONS; THEORETICAL MODELS;

FOUR WAVE MIXING;

QUANTUM DOT;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LASER; LIGHT; RADIATION SCATTERING; SEMICONDUCTOR; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; QUANTUM DOTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SEMICONDUCTORS;

EID: 84855444268     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.000101     Document Type: Article

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