Population pulsations and nondegenerate four-wave mixing in semiconductor lasers and amplifiers

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1988, Pages 147-159

  Agrawal, Govind P ^a  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

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EID: 84975581173     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.5.000147     Document Type: Article

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