High-power, low-noise 1.5-μm slab-coupled optical waveguide (SCOW) emitters: Physics, devices, and applications

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1698-1714

  Juodawlkis, Paul W ^a   Plant, Jason J ^a   Loh, William ^a   Missaggia, Leo J ^a   O'Donnell, Frederick J ^a   Oakley, Douglas C ^a   Napoleone, Antonio ^a   Klamkin, Jonathan ^a   Gopinath, Juliet T ^b   Ripin, Daniel J ^a   Gee, Sangyoun ^c   Delfyett, Peter J ^c   Donnelly, Joseph P ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

External cavity lasers; mode locked lasers; noise figure; optical waveguides; power amplifiers; quantum well devices; semiconductor optical amplifiers; single frequency lasers

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE REGIONS; ACTIVELY MODE-LOCKED LASERS; CONFINEMENT FACTOR; DESIGN PRINCIPLES; EXTERNAL-CAVITY LASERS; GAIN MEDIUM; GAUSSIANS; HIGH-POWER; INGAALAS; INGAASP; INTERNAL LOSS; LINEAR OPTICAL; LOSS MECHANISMS; LOW NOISE; MODE-LOCKED LASER; NYQUIST; OPTICAL CONFINEMENT FACTORS; OUTPUT POWER; PASSIVELY MODE-LOCKED LASERS; PERFORMANCE LIMITATIONS; QUANTUM WELL; QUANTUM WELL DEVICE; RELATIVE INTENSITY NOISE; SINGLE-FREQUENCY; SINGLE-FREQUENCY LASERS; TRANSVERSE OPTICAL MODES; TWO-PHOTON ABSORPTIONS; WAVELENGTH REGIONS;

LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; NOISE FIGURE; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; POWER AMPLIFIERS; QUANTUM WELL LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; TIMING JITTER; TWO PHOTON PROCESSES; WAVEGUIDES;

MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS;

EID: 83455258008     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2011.2126041     Document Type: Article

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