Quantum-dot mode-locked lasers with dual-mode optical injection

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 359-361

  Habruseva, Tatiana ^a,b   O'donoghue, Shane ^a,b   Rebrova, Natalia ^a,b   Reid, Douglas A ^c   Barry, Liam P ^c   Rachinskii, Dmitrii ^d   Huyet, Guillaume ^a,b   Hegarty, Stephen P ^a,b  

^a Department of Chemistry   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^c DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY   (Ireland)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Jitter; Mode locked lasers; Phase locked oscillators; Quantum dot lasers

Indexed keywords

DUAL MODES; INJECTION LOCKED; LOW JITTERS; MODE-LOCKED LASER; OPTICAL INJECTION; PHASE LOCKED OSCILLATORS; QUANTUM DOTS; SPECTRAL TUNING; TIME-BANDWIDTH PRODUCTS;

JITTER; LASERS; MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

QUANTUM DOT LASERS;

EID: 77649104767     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2009.2039347     Document Type: Article

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