Widely tunable mode-locked laser diodes using optical disk filter

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 615-617

  Akimoto, Koji ^a   Katagiri, Yoshitada ^b   Suzuki, Ken Ichi ^a   Nagaoka, Shinji ^b  

^a NTT Network Innovation Laboratories   (Japan)

^b NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDPASS FILTERS; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; LASER RESONATORS; MIRRORS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FILTERS; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

MODE LOCKED LASER DIODES; OPTICAL DISK FILTER; OPTICAL PULSES; TUNABLE FILTERS;

LASER MODE LOCKING;

EID: 0034204671     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.849061     Document Type: Article

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