Absorber and gain chip optimization to improve performance from a passively modelocked electrically pumped vertical external cavity surface emitting laser

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 104, Issue 12, 2014, Pages

  Zaugg, C A ^a   Gronenborn, S ^b   Moench, H ^b   Mangold, M ^a   Miller, M ^b   Weichmann, U ^b   Pallmann, W P ^a   Golling, M ^a   Tilma, B W ^a   Keller, U ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MODULATION; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTIMIZATION; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; SILICON NITRIDE; SURFACE EMITTING LASERS;

AVERAGE OUTPUT POWER; CAVITY CONFIGURATION; ELECTRICALLY PUMPED; IMPROVE PERFORMANCE; MASS-MARKET APPLICATIONS; PASSIVELY MODE-LOCKED; SATURATION FLUENCE; VERTICAL EXTERNAL CAVITY SURFACE EMITTING LASER;

SEMICONDUCTOR SATURABLE ABSORBER MIRRORS;

EID: 84897459609     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4870048     Document Type: Article

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