High peak-power picosecond pulse generation at 1.26 μm using a quantum-dot-based externalcavity mode-locked laser and tapered optical amplifier

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 13, 2012, Pages 14308-14320

  Ding, Y ^a   Aviles Espinosa, R ^b   Cataluna, M A ^a   Nikitichev, D ^a   Ruiz, M ^c   Tran, M ^c   Robert, Y ^c   Kapsalis, A ^e   Simos, H ^e   Mesaritakis, C ^e   Xu, T ^d   Bardella, P ^d   Rossetti, M ^d   Krestnikov, I ^f   Livshits, D ^f   Montrosset, Ivo ^d   Syvridis, D ^e   Krakowski, M ^c   Loza Alvarez, P ^b   Rafailov, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b ICFO INSTITUT DE CIENCIES FOTONIQUES   (Spain)

^c ALCATEL THALES III V LAB   (France)

^d POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^f INNOLUME GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASERS; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; LIGHT SOURCES; PASSIVE MODE LOCKING; PULSE GENERATORS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

AVERAGE POWER; BIO-IMAGING; EXTERNAL CAVITY; LASER EMISSION; MODE-LOCKED LASER; NONLINEAR IMAGING; OUTPUT COUPLERS; PASSIVELY MODE-LOCKED LASERS; PEAK POWER; PICO-SECOND PULSE; PICOSECONDS; PULSE ENERGIES; PULSED LIGHT SOURCE; QUANTUM DOT SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIER; SPECTRAL BAND; SPECTRAL RANGE; VOLUME BRAGG GRATINGS;

SATURABLE ABSORBERS;

QUANTUM DOT;

AMPLIFIER; ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

AMPLIFIERS, ELECTRONIC; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS; QUANTUM DOTS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 84863771599     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.014308     Document Type: Article

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