10 GHz pulses generated across a -100 nm tuning range using a gain-shifted mode-locked SOA ring laser

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 2158-2163

  Tang, W W ^a   Fok, M P ^a   Shu, Chester ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSION (WAVES); FEEDBACK; LASER MODE LOCKING; MIRRORS; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS;

SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIER (SOA); SPECTRAL GAIN; WIDELY-TUNABLE PICOSECOND PULSES;

RING LASERS;

EID: 33645082939     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.002158     Document Type: Article

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