High performance mode locking characteristics of single section quantum dash lasers

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 8649-8657

  Rosales, Ricardo ^a   Murdoch, S G ^b   Watts, R T ^c   Merghem, K ^a   Martinez, Anthony ^a   Lelarge, Francois ^d   Accard, Alain ^d   Barry, L P ^c   Ramdane, Abderrahim ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY   (Ireland)

^d THALES RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL CONSTANTS; OPTICS;

CAVITY LENGTH; HIGH PEAK POWER; INJECTION CURRENTS; MODE-LOCKED PULSE; PHASE PROFILE; QUANTUM DASH STRUCTURES; QUANTUM DASHES; RADIO FREQUENCIES; SPECTRAL BANDWIDTH;

LASER MODE LOCKING;

EID: 84860161290     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.008649     Document Type: Article

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