Low-jitter and high-power 40-GHz all-active mode-locked lasers

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 975-977

  Yvind, Kresten ^a   Larsson, David ^a   Christiansen, Lotte J ^a   Angelo, Casper ^a   Oxenløwe, Leif K ^a   Mørk, Jesper ^a   Birkedal, Dan ^a   Hvam, Jørn M ^a   Hanberg, Jesper ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Laser noise; Mode locked lasers (MLLs); Semiconductor lasers; Semiconductor optical pulse amplifiers

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); JITTER; LASER MODE LOCKING; LASER PULSES; MONOLITHIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

CHIRP FREE PULSES; EPITAXIAL STRUCTURE; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL PULSE AMPLIFIERS;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 1942436780     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2004.824634     Document Type: Article

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