Subharmonic synchronous mode-locking of a monolithic semiconductor laser operating at millimeter-wave frequencies

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 261-268

  Nirmalathas, Ampalavanapillai ^b   Liu, Hai Feng ^a,b   Ahmed, Zaheer ^a,b   Novak, Dalma ^a,b   Ogawa, Yoh ^c  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c OKI ELECTRIC INDUSTRY CO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amplitude modulation; Millimeter wave generation; Mode locked lasers; Phase noise; Synchronization

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; COST EFFECTIVENESS; LASER MODE LOCKING; LASER PULSES; MILLIMETER WAVES; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; SYNCHRONIZATION;

MONOLITHIC DISTRIBUTED BRAGG REFLECTOR SEMICONDUCTOR LASER; PHASE NOISE;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 0031109232     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/2944.605667     Document Type: Article

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