Analysis of hybrid mode-locking of two-section quantum dot lasers operating at 1.5 μm

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 20, 2009, Pages 18063-18075

  Heck, Martijn J R ^a,b,c   Salumbides, Edcel J ^a   Renault, Amandine ^a   Bente, Erwin A J M ^b   Oei, Yok Siang ^b   Smit, Meint K ^b   Van Veldhoven, René ^b   Nötzel, Richard ^b   Eikema, Kjeld S E ^a   Ubachs, Wim ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER MODE LOCKING; LOCKS (FASTENERS); MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS; NANOCRYSTALS; PULSE SHAPING; QUANTUM WELL LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

BULK MATERIALS; HYBRID MODE-LOCKING; INAS/INP QUANTUM DOTS; MODE LOCKED LASER DIODE; OUTPUT PULSE; RADIO FREQUENCIES; SPECTRAL STUDIES; TIME DOMAIN;

QUANTUM DOT LASERS;

QUANTUM DOT;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERFEROMETRY; LASER; LIGHT; RADIATION SCATTERING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; INTERFEROMETRY; LASERS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; QUANTUM DOTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 70349667615     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.018063     Document Type: Article

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