Timing jitter from the optical spectrum in semiconductor passively mode locked lasers

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 9151-9160

  Rosales, Ricardo ^a   Merghem, Kamel ^a   Martinez, Anthony ^a   Lelarge, Francois ^b   Accard, Alain ^b   Ramdane, Abderrahim ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PASSIVE MODE LOCKING; QUANTUM DASH LASERS; TIMING JITTER;

DIFFUSION CONSTANT; MODE-LOCKED LASER; OPTICAL LINEWIDTH; OPTICAL SPECTRA; PASSIVELY MODE-LOCKED; PASSIVELY MODE-LOCKED LASERS; PHOTO DETECTION; QUANTUM DASHES;

SATURABLE ABSORBERS;

EID: 84860186996     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.009151     Document Type: Article

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