Sub-5-ps optical pulse generation from a 1.55-μm distributed-feedback laser diode with nanosecond electric pulse excitation and spectral filtering

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 22, 2012, Pages 24843-24849

  Chen, Shaoqiang ^a   Sato, Aya ^b   Ito, Takashi ^a   Yoshita, Masahiro ^a,b   Akiyama, Hidefumi ^a   Yokoyama, Hiroyuki ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DAMPED OSCILLATIONS; GAIN-SWITCHED; LASING SPECTRUM; MODELOCKING; NANOSECOND ELECTRIC PULSE; OPTICAL PULSE GENERATION; OUTPUT PULSE; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; RELAXATION OSCILLATION; SHORT PULSE; SHORT-WAVELENGTH; SIMPLE METHOD; SINGLE MODE; SPECTRAL FILTERING; TIME-RESOLVED; WAVE FORMS;

FOURIER SERIES; LIGHT PULSE GENERATORS;

MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS;

EID: 84868221097     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.024843     Document Type: Article

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