Semiconductor Optical amplifier based high duty-cycle, self-starting figure-eight 1.7 GHz laser source

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 6187-6193

  Min, Seong Sik ^a   Zhao, Yucheng ^b   Fleming, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b ATP   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; OPTICAL PUMPING; PULSE REPETITION RATE; Q SWITCHED LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

A-STABLE; DUTY-CYCLE; LASER SOURCES; MODE-LOCKED; PULSE TRAIN; REPETITION RATE; SELF-STARTING;

SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS;

AMPLIFIER; ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; DIODE LASER; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

AMPLIFIERS, ELECTRONIC; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS, SEMICONDUCTOR; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 65149087618     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.006187     Document Type: Article

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