Experimental investigation of injection locking of fundamental and subharmonic frequency-modulated active mode-locked laser diodes

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 34, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1588-1596

  Teshima, Mitsuhiro ^a,b   Sato, Kenji ^a,b   Koga, Masafumi ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Japan)

^b NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Frequency control; Frequency domain synthesis; Injection locked oscillators; Laser stability; Mode locked lasers; Semiconductors lasers

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FREQUENCY CONTROL; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; FREQUENCY MODULATION; LASER MODE LOCKING; LIGHT ABSORPTION; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

ACTIVE MODE-LOCKED LASER DIODES (ML-LD); INJECTION LOCKED OSCILLATORS;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 0032165511     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.709575     Document Type: Article

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