Analysis of a multistable semiconductor light amplifier
Abstract
A multistable operation in semiconductor laser amplifiers, based upon the carrier density dependence of the active region refractive index, is proposed. Simple analytical expressions describing the optical multistability are given, using the so-called antiguidance factor, which is the ratio of the decrease in the real refractive index to the increase in the imaginary refractive index.
- Publication:
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IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics
- Pub Date:
- July 1983
- DOI:
- 10.1109/JQE.1983.1072006
- Bibcode:
- 1983IJQE...19.1184O
- Keywords:
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- Carrier Density (Solid State);
- Laser Stability;
- Light Amplifiers;
- Nonlinear Optics;
- Refractivity;
- Semiconductor Lasers;
- Amplifier Design;
- Carrier Injection;
- Complex Variables;
- Design Analysis;
- Fabry-Perot Interferometers;
- Power Gain;
- Wave Dispersion;
- Lasers and Masers