Spectral amplitude and phase measurement of a 40 GHz free-running quantum-dash modelocked laser diode

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 13628-13635

  Murdoch, S G ^a   Watts, R T ^b   Xu, Y Q ^a   Maldonado Basilio, R ^b   Parra Cetina, J ^b   Latkowski, S ^b   Landais, P ^b   Barry, L P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIODES; DISPERSIONS; PHASE MEASUREMENT; PULSE REPETITION RATE;

100 GHZ; APPLIED CURRENT; FS PULSE; INTRA-CAVITY DISPERSION; LINEAR TECHNIQUES; MODELOCKED LASER DIODES; OPTICAL SIGNALS; QUANTUM DASHES; REPETITION RATE; SPECTRAL AMPLITUDE;

QUANTUM DASH LASERS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; METHODOLOGY; QUANTUM THEORY; SOLID STATE LASER; SPECTROSCOPY;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEEDBACK; LASERS, SOLID-STATE; QUANTUM THEORY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EID: 79959911074     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.013628     Document Type: Article

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