Investigations of repetition rate stability of a mode-locked quantum dot semiconductor laser in an auxiliary optical fiber cavity

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 150-157

  Breuer, Stefan ^a   Elsäßer, Wolfgang ^a   McLnerney, John G ^b   Yvind, Kresten ^c   Pozo, Jose ^d   Bente, Erwin A J M ^d   Yousefi, Mirvais ^e   Villafranca, Asier ^g   Vogiatzis, Nikos ^f   Rorison, Judy ^f  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^d EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^e TNO   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Laser absorbers; Laser resonators; Laser stability; Semiconductor lasers

Indexed keywords

LASER ABSORBERS; LASER STABILITY; MODE BEATING; MODE-LOCKED; MONOLITHIC MODE; MULTI-SECTION; OPTICAL FIBER CAVITY; ORDER OF MAGNITUDE; PULSE REPETITION FREQUENCIES; PULSE TRAIN; QUANTUM DOT SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; REPETITION RATE; RF-SPECTRUM;

LASER RESONATORS; LASERS; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; Q SWITCHED LASERS; QUANTUM DOT LASERS; RESONATORS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; STABILITY; TIMING JITTER;

MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS;

EID: 73949146021     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2009.2033255     Document Type: Article

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