Extreme timing jitter reduction of a passively mode-locked laser diode by optical pulse injection

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1805-1811

  Arahira, Shin ^a,b   Kutsuzawa, Satoko ^a,c   Ogawa, Yoh ^a,d  

^a OKI ELECTRIC INDUSTRY CO   (Japan)

^b WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d JAPAN SOCIETY OF APPLIED PHYSICS   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL PULSE GENERATION; TIMING JITTER;

LASER MODE LOCKING; LASER PULSES; SYNCHRONIZATION;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 0033351148     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.806587     Document Type: Article

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