DocumentCode
1354603
Title
Mode-locking of long cavity Fabry-Perot semiconductor laser at millimetre wave frequencies by subharmonic optical injection
Author
Wen, Yang Jing ; Novak, D. ; Liu, Hai Feng
Author_Institution
Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Melbourne Univ., Parkville, Vic., Australia
Volume
36
Issue
10
fYear
2000
fDate
5/11/2000 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
879
Lastpage
881
Abstract
A long cavity Fabry-Perot laser has been forced into pulsed operation with a repetition rate equal to its cavity resonant frequency (32.8GHz), by injecting short optical pulses at the fourth subharmonic (8.2 GHz). Pulse trains generated using this technique exhibit a high subharmonic suppression ratio (>17 dB), wide locking range (>500 MHz) and low levels of jitter (<0.4 ps)
Keywords
Fabry-Perot resonators; laser cavity resonators; laser mode locking; optical pulse generation; semiconductor lasers; 32.8 GHz; 8.2 GHz; long-cavity Fabry-Perot semiconductor laser; millimetre-wave frequency; mode locking; pulsed operation; repetition rate; subharmonic optical injection; ultrashort optical pulse generation;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Electronics Letters
Publisher
iet
ISSN
0013-5194
Type
jour
DOI
10.1049/el:20000681
Filename
850504
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