Exotic behavior in quantum dot mode-locked lasers: Dark pulses and bistability

Quantum Dot Devices

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 23-48

  Silverman, Kevin ^a   Feng, Mingming ^a   Mirin, Richard ^a   Cundiff, Steven ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASERS; NANOCRYSTALS; PASSIVE MODE LOCKING; QUANTUM DOT LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

ABSORPTION DYNAMICS; ACTIVE REGIONS; CONTINUOUS WAVE; MASTER EQUATIONS; MODE-LOCKED LASER; MONOLITHIC DESIGN; PASSIVELY MODE-LOCKED; SELF ASSEMBLED QUANTUM DOTS;

MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS;

EID: 84919642228     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-3570-9_2     Document Type: Chapter

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