10GHz 3ps actively mode-locked ring laser incorporating a semiconductor laser amplifier and an electroabsorption modulator

Electronics Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 24, 1996, Pages 2240-2241

  Guy, M J ^a   Taylor, J R ^a   Moodie, D G ^b   Kelly, A E ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MARTLESHAM HEATH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Electroabsorption modulators; Ring Lasers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY RESPONSE; LASER MODE LOCKING; LASER PULSES; LASER TUNING; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; MODULATORS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

ELECTROABSORPTION MODULATORS; MODE LOCKED RING LASERS;

RING LASERS;

EID: 0030288403     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:19961482     Document Type: Article

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