A low repetition rate all-active monolithic passively mode-locked quantum-dot laser

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 1019-1021

  Li, Yan ^a   Breivik, Magnus ^a,b   Feng, Cheng Yong ^a   Fimland, Bjrn Ove ^b   Lester, Luke F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Mode locked lasers (MLLs); quantum dot (QD) lasers

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE POWER; CAVITY LENGTH; HIGH SPEED SAMPLING; LOW REPETITION RATE; MODE-LOCKED LASER; PASSIVELY MODE-LOCKED; PASSIVELY MODE-LOCKED LASERS; PEAK POWER; PULSEWIDTHS; REPETITION RATE;

MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS; Q SWITCHED LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

QUANTUM DOT LASERS;

EID: 79959949257     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2011.2151281     Document Type: Article

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