Numerical investigations on the performance of external-cavity mode-locked semiconductor lasers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5452, Issue , 2004, Pages 571-582

  Mulet, Josep ^a,b   Moerk, Jesper ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Mode locking; Semiconductor laser; Short pulse generation; Timing jitter

Indexed keywords

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LASER MODE LOCKING; MODULATION; MULTIPLEXING; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TIMING JITTER;

AMPLIFIED SPONTANEOUS EMISSIONS (ASE); MASTER EQUATION FOR MODE-LOCKING (MEML); PULSEWIDTHS; SHORT PULSE GENERATION;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 12344297715     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.544978     Document Type: Conference Paper

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