High-power picosecond pulse generation due to mode-locking with a monolithic 10-mm-long four-section DBR laser at 920 nm

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 19, Issue 23, 2007, Pages 1889-1891

  Schwertfeger, Sven ^a   Klehr, A ^a   Liero, A ^a   Erbert, G ^a   Trankle G ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUT FÜR HÖCHSTFREQUENZTECHNIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cavity resonators; Distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) laser; High power; Laser mode locking; Mode locking; Pico second (ps) pulse; Semiconductor lasers; Surface emitting lasers

Indexed keywords

CAVITY RESONATORS; DISTRIBUTED BRAGG REFLECTORS; FULL WIDTH AT HALF MAXIMUM; HETEROJUNCTIONS; LASER MODE LOCKING; LASER PULSES; LIGHT PULSE GENERATORS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

OPTICAL PULSE POWER; PICOSECOND PULSE GENERATION; PULSE ENERGY;

SURFACE EMITTING LASERS;

EID: 38049110452     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2007.908649     Document Type: Article

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