Interband optical pulse injection locking of quantum dot mode-locked semiconductor laser

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 15, 2008, Pages 11153-11161

  Kim, Jimyung ^a   Delfyett, Peter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; EXCITED STATES; GROUND STATE; LASER MODE LOCKING; LASER PULSES; MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS; NANOCRYSTALS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; PASSIVE MODE LOCKING; PULSE REPETITION RATE; Q SWITCHED LASERS; QUANTUM DOT LASERS; QUANTUM OPTICS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

FIRST EXCITED STATE; GROUND STATE TRANSITION; LOCKING BANDWIDTH; MODE-LOCKED SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; OPTICAL CLOCK RECOVERY; OPTICAL PULSE TRAIN; PASSIVELY MODE-LOCKED; REVERSE INJECTION;

INJECTION LASERS;

QUANTUM DOT;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIODE LASER; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; RADIATION SCATTERING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS, SEMICONDUCTOR; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; QUANTUM DOTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 47849112147     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.011153     Document Type: Article

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