Optical beat frequency generation up to 40.6THz by mode-locked semiconductor lasers

Electronics Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 18, 1996, Pages 1727-1729

  Onodera, N ^a  

^a Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications   (Japan)

Author keywords

Laser mode locking; Optical control of microwaves; Semiconductor junction lasers

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; LASER MODE LOCKING; LIGHT MODULATION; MICROWAVES; OPTICAL CORRELATION; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; SEMICONDUCTOR JUNCTIONS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

AUTOCORRELATOR; FIBRE COUPLER; OPTICAL BEAT FREQUENCY GENERATION; OPTICAL MICROWAVE CONTROL; SEMICONDUCTOR JUNCTION LASERS;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 0030218149     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:19961139     Document Type: Article

References (6)

1. CHEN, Y.K., WU, M.C., TANBUN-EK, T., LOGAN, R.A., and CHIN, M.A.: 'Subpicosecond monolithic colliding-pulse mode-locked multiple quantum well lasers', Appl. Phys. Lett., 1991, 58, (12), pp. 1253-1255
2. ARAHIRA, S., OSHIBA, S., MATSUI, Y., KUNII, T., and OGAWA, Y.; 'Terahertz-rate optical pulse generation from a passively mode-locked semiconductor laser diode'. Opt. Lett., 1994, 19, (11), pp. 834-836
3. AUSTON, D.H., and NUSS. M.C.: 'Electrooptic generation and detection of femtosecond electrical transients', IEEE J. Quantum Electron., 1988, 24, (2), pp. 184-197
4. MCINTOSH, K.A., BROWN. E.R., NICHOLS, K.B., MCMAHON, O.B., DINATALE, W.F., and LYSZCZARZ, T.M.: Terahertz photomixing with diode lasers in low-temperature-grown GaAs', Appl. Phys. Lett., 1995, 67, (26), pp. 3844-3846
5. MURDOCH, S.G., LEONHARDT, R., and HARVEY, J.D.: 'Beat frequencies of up to 16THz generated via modulation instability in birefringent fibres', Opt. Comm., 1995, 115, (5-6), pp. 461-465
6. ONODERA, N.: THz optical beat frequency generation by mode-locked semiconductor lasers', Electron. Lett, 1996, 32, (11), pp. 1013-1015