Timing jitter characterization of a free-running SESAM mode-locked VECSEL

IEEE Photonics Journal

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 658-664

  Wittwer, V J ^a   Zaugg, C A ^a   Pallmann, W P ^a   Oehler, A E H ^a   Rudin, B ^a   Hoffmann, M ^a   Golling, M ^a   Barbarin, Y ^a   Sudmeyer T ^a   Keller, U ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

diode pumped lasers; infrared lasers; mode locked lasers; Photon sources; semiconductor lasers; ultrafast lasers

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CAVITY; CAVITY MODE; DIODE PUMPED LASERS; EDGE-EMITTING SEMICONDUCTOR; FREE-RUNNING LASERS; INGAAS QUANTUM WELLS; MODE-LOCKED; MODE-LOCKED LASER; MULTIMODES; NOISE PERFORMANCE; OUTPUT POWER; PASSIVELY MODE-LOCKED; PHOTON SOURCES; PUMP DIODES; QUANTUM WELL; REPETITION RATE; SEMICONDUCTOR SATURABLE ABSORBER MIRRORS; TIMING JITTER MEASUREMENTS; ULTRA-FAST; VECSEL; VERTICAL EXTERNAL CAVITY SURFACE EMITTING LASER;

DIODES; HOUSING; MECHANICAL STABILITY; MIRRORS; MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS; PUMPING (LASER); Q SWITCHED LASERS; QUANTUM DOT LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR DIODES; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; TIMING JITTER; ULTRAFAST LASERS;

QUANTUM WELL LASERS;

EID: 79960377580     PISSN: 19430655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPHOT.2011.2160050     Document Type: Article

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