Gain-switched pulses from InGaAs ridgequantum-well lasers limited by intrinsic dynamical gain suppression

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 7570-7576

  Chen, Shaoqiang ^a   Yoshita, Masahiro ^a,b   Ito, Takashi ^a   Mochizuki, Toshimitsu ^a   Akiyama, Hidefumi ^a   Yokoyama, Hiroyuki ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL PUMPING; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

CURRENT INJECTIONS; DOUBLE QUANTUM-WELL; EXPERIMENTAL DATUM; GAIN NONLINEARITIES; LIMITATION FACTORS; MICROSCOPIC THEORY; PUMPING CONDITION; THEORETICAL CALCULATIONS;

OPTICALLY PUMPED LASERS;

GALLIUM; GALLIUM ARSENIDE; INDIUM; INDIUM ARSENIDE; ORGANOARSENIC DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; LASER; QUANTUM THEORY;

ARSENICALS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; GALLIUM; INDIUM; LASERS; QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 84875754665     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.007570     Document Type: Article

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