Short-pulse generation with broad-band tunability from semiconductor lasers in an external ring cavity

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 618-620

  Lee, Bor Lin ^a   Lin, Ching Fuh ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; LASER MODE LOCKING; LASER RESONATORS; MONOCHROMATORS; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; POWER AMPLIFIERS; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

ASYMMETRIC DUAL QUANTUM WELLS; RING CAVITY; SHORT PULSE GENERATION;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 0034204913     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.849062     Document Type: Article

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