Distortion-free optical amplification of 20-80GHz modelocked laser pulses at 1.3μm using quantum dots

Electronics Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 697-699

  Laemmlin, M ^a   Fiol, G ^a   Meuer, C ^a   Kuntz, M ^a   Hopfer, F ^a   Kovsh, A R ^b   Ledentsov, N N ^a,b   Bimberg, D ^a  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b NL Nanosemiconductor GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); DISTORTION (WAVES); OPTICS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

MODELOCKED LASER; OPTICAL AMPLIFICATION; PULSE WIDTH; QUANTUM DOT MATERIAL;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 33745107612     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:20061256     Document Type: Article

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