Experimental investigation of different regimes of Mode-locking in a high repetition rate passively mode-locked semiconductor quantum-dot laser

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 6258-6267

  Ḱef́elian, Fabien ^a,c   O'donoghue, Shane ^a,b   Todaro, Maria Teresa ^b,d   Mcinerney, John ^b   Huyet, Guillaume ^a  

^a Munster Technological University   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 13   (France)

^d NATIONAL NANOTECHNOLOGY LABORATORY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER MODE LOCKING; NANOCRYSTALS; PASSIVE MODE LOCKING; Q SWITCHING; QUANTUM DOT LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; TIMING JITTER;

COMPLEX DYNAMICS; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; HIGH REPETITION RATE; OPERATION REGIME; PASSIVELY MODE-LOCKED; PASSIVELY MODE-LOCKED LASERS; REPETITION RATE; THRESHOLD CURRENTS;

MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS;

QUANTUM DOT;

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

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

EID: 65149089454     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.006258     Document Type: Article

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