Picosecond all-optical gate using a saturable absorber in mode-locked laser diodes

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 603-605

  Ogura, Ichiro ^a   Hashimoto, Yoichi ^a   Kurita, Hisakazu ^a   Shimizu, Takanori ^a   Yokoyama, Hiroyuki ^a,b,c  

^a NEC CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^c IEEE

Author keywords

Laser diode; Mode locking (mode locked laser diode); Optical communication; Optical gate; Optical signal processing; Saturable absorber; Time division multiplexing

Indexed keywords

LASER MODE LOCKING; LIGHT ABSORPTION; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; TIME DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA;

OPTICAL GATES; SATURABLE ABSORBERS (SA);

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 3643147945     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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