Saturable absorber intensity modulator

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1143-1149

  Guina, Mircea D ^a   Vainionpää, Anne Maria ^a   Orsila, Lasse ^a   Härkönen, Antti ^a   Lyytikäinen, Jari ^a   Gomes, Luís A ^a,b   Okhotnikov, O G ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Fiber laser; Mode locking; Nonlinear optics; Optical modulation; Saturable absorption; Semiconductor switches

Indexed keywords

FIBER LASERS; LASER MODE LOCKING; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT MODULATION; LIGHT REFLECTION; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL PUMPING; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE STRUCTURES; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; SEMICONDUCTOR SWITCHES;

FABRY-PEROT CAVITY; IN-PLANE CONTROL LASER; SATURABLE ABSORPTION BASED INTENSITY MODULATOR; SURFACE NORMAL ARCHITECTURE;

LIGHT MODULATORS;

EID: 0141740596     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2003.816101     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. G. D. Boyd, J. E. Bowers, C. E. Soccolich, D. A. B. Miller, D. S. Chemla, L.M. F. Chirovsky, A. C. Gossard, and J. H. English, "5.5 GHz multiple quantum well reflection modulator," Electron. Lett., vol. 25, pp. 558-560, Apr. 1989.
2. M. Chmielowski and D. W. Langer, "Quantum well vertical light modulator," IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., vol. 1, pp. 77-79, Apr. 1989.
3. M. Whitehead and G. Parry, "High-contrast reflection modulation at normal incidence in asymmetric multiple quantum well Fabry-Perot structure," Electron. Lett., vol. 25, pp. 566-568, Mar. 1989.
4. R.-H. Yan, R. J. Simes, and L. A. Coldren, "Surface-normal electroabsorption reflection modulators using asymmetric Fabry-Perot structures," IEEE J. Quantum Electron., vol. 27, pp. 1922-1931, Jul. 1991.
5. R. H. Yan and L. A. Coldren, "Effect of temperature on the operating characteristics of asymmetric Fabry-Perot reflection modulators," Appl. Phys. Lett., vol. 57, pp. 267-269, Jul. 1990.
6. J. F. Heffernan, M. H. Moloney, J. Hegarty, J. S. Roberts, and M. Whitehead, "All optical, high contrast absorptive modulation in an asymmetric-Fabry-Perot étalon," Appl. Phys. Lett., vol. 58, pp. 2877-2879, Jun. 1991.
7. H. S. Loka and P. W. E. Smith, "Ultrafast all-optical switching in an asymmetric Fabry-Pérot device using low-temperature-grown GaAs," IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., vol. 10, pp. 1733-1735, Dec. 1998.
8. A. Hirano, H. Kobayashi, H. Tsuda, R. Takahashi, M. Asobe, K. Sato, and K. Hagimoto, "10 Gbit/s RZ all-optical discrimination using refined saturable absorber optical gate," Electron. Lett., 34, pp. 198-199, Jan. 1998.
9. 0.53As/InP distributed bragg reflector," Electron. Lett., vol. 37, pp. 374-375, Mar. 2001.
10. G.-H. Duan, P. Landais, and J. Jaquet, "Modeling and measurement of bistable semiconductor laser," IEEE J. Quantum Electron., vol. 30, pp. 2507-2515, Nov. 1994.
11. E. R. Thoen, E. M. Koontz, D. J. Jones, D. Barbier, F. X. Kärtner, E. P. Ippen, and L. A. Koldziejski, "Erbium-ytterbium waveguide laser mode-locked with a semiconductor saturable absorber mirror," IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., vol. 12, pp. 149-151, Feb. 2000.
12. E. Garmire, "Criteria for optical bistability in a lossy saturating Fabry-Perot," IEEE J. Quantum Electron, vol. 25, pp. 289-295, Mar. 1989.
13. E. Yoshida, N. Shimizu, and M. Nakazawa, "A 40-GHz 0.9-ps regeneratively mode-locked fiber laser with a tuning range of 1530-1560 nm," IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett, vol. 11, pp. 1587-1589, Dec. 1999.
14. C. X. Yu, H. A. Haus, E. P. Ippen, W. S. Wong, and A. Sysoliatin, "Gigahertz-repetition-rate mode-locked fiber laser for continuum generation," Opt. Lett., 25, pp. 1418-1420, Oct. 2000.
15. N. H. Bonadeo, W. H. Know, J. M. Roth, and K. Bergman, "Passive harmonic mode-locked fiber laser stabilized by an optically pumped saturable absorber," Opt. Lett., vol. 25, pp. 1421-1423, Oct 2000.
16. M. Guina and O. G. Okhotnikov, "Harmonically mode-locked laser stabilized by semiconductor saturable absorber modulated with the residual pump," Appl. Phys. B., vol. 75, pp. 127-130, 2002.