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Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE

Traveling-wave treatment of two-segment bistable semiconductor lasers

Luo Bin, Jianguo Chen, Binzhong Li, Yucun Lu, Hongchang Lü

Published May 11, 1993• 0 citations
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Abstract

Travelling wave rate equations have been used to study the optical bistability of the two- segment laser diodes. Closed form solutions for photon flux inside the cavity have been deduced and some aspects of the bistable lasers discussed.
DOI
10.1117/12.144150

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