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Noise Behavior of Pulsed Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers

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Author(s)

T. W. Garrison, M. Beck, David H. Christensen

Abstract

We determine the pulse energy fluctuations of vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers by measuring the number of photoelectrons produced when a laser pulse is incident upon a photodetector.
Citation
Journal of the Optical Society of America B-Optical Physics
Volume
16
Issue
11

Keywords

photon-statistics, vertical-cavity-lasers

Citation

Garrison, T. , Beck, M. and Christensen, D. (1999), Noise Behavior of Pulsed Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers, Journal of the Optical Society of America B-Optical Physics (Accessed March 13, 2025)

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Created October 31, 1999, Updated October 12, 2021