An antiresonant Fabry-Perot saturable absorber for passive mode-locking fabricated by metal-organic vapor phase epitaxy and ion implantation design, characterization, and mode-locking

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 34, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 2150-2161

  Lederer, M J ^b   Luther Davies, B ^a,b   Tan, H H ^b   Jagadish, C ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ion implantation; Mode locked lasers; MOVPE growth; Passive mode locking; Semiconductor saturable absorbers

Indexed keywords

ANTIRESONANT FABRY-PEROT SATURABLE ABSORBERS; PASSIVE MODE LOCKING; TITANIUM SAPPHIRE LASERS;

ANNEALING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ION IMPLANTATION; LASER MODE LOCKING; METALLORGANIC VAPOR PHASE EPITAXY; OPTICAL DESIGN; REFLECTOMETERS; RELIABILITY; SOLID STATE LASERS;

LIGHT ABSORPTION;

EID: 0032206551     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.726608     Document Type: Article

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