Self-pulsation in multisection laser diodes with a DFB reflector

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 622-624

  Leem, Young Ahn ^a   Yee, Dae Su ^b   Sim, Eundeok ^a   Kim, Sung Bock ^a   Kim, Dong Churl ^a   Park, Kyung Hyun ^a  

^a Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)   (South Korea)

^b Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Distributed feedback (DFB) reflector; Optical pulse generation; Passive mode locking; Self pulsation; Semiconductor lasers

Indexed keywords

COMPOUND CAVITY; DISTRIBUTED-FEEDBACK; MULTISECTION LASERS; OPERATING RANGES; OPTICAL PULSE GENERATION; PASSIVE MODE LOCKING; SELF PULSATION; SINGLE-MODE LASERS; THRESHOLD CURRENTS;

DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASERS; FEEDBACK; LASER MODES; LASERS; LIGHT PULSE GENERATORS; PULSE GENERATORS; REFLECTION; SEMICONDUCTOR DIODES;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 33847368563     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2006.870186     Document Type: Article

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