Repetition-frequency-tunable mode-locked surface emitting semiconductor laser between 2.78 and 7.87 GHz

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 23, 2011, Pages 23453-23459

  Wilcox, Keith G ^a   Quarterman, Adrian H ^a   Beere, Harvey E ^b   Ritchie, David A ^b   Tropper, Anne C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SPECTROSCOPY;

FLUENCES; HIGH REPETITION; LASER CAVITY; MECHANICAL TUNING; MODE-LOCKED; MODELOCKING; OCTAVE TUNING RANGE; OPTICAL STARK EFFECT; OUTPUT POWER; PASSIVELY MODE-LOCKED; PEAK INTENSITY; PULSE DURATIONS; PULSE SHORTENING; PULSE-SHAPING; RECOVERY TIME; REPETITION FREQUENCY; REPETITION RATE; SATURABLE ABSORBERS; SURFACE EMITTING SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; THERMALIZATION; TRANSVERSE MODE; TUNING RANGES; VECSEL; VERTICAL-EXTERNAL-CAVITY;

PULSE REPETITION RATE;

EID: 80755127035     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.023453     Document Type: Article

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