Locking Bandwidth of Actively Mode-Locked Semiconductor Lasers

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 1993, Pages 1714-1721

  Ahmed, Zaheer ^a   Zhai, Lu ^a   Lowery, Arthur J ^a   Onodera, Noriaki ^a   Tucker, Rodney S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER MODE LOCKING; LIGHT PULSE GENERATORS; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS;

BANDWIDTH LOCKING; CAVITY LENGTH; SHORT-PULSE GENERATORS;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 0027615209     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: 15581713     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.234426     Document Type: Article

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