External cavity, actively mode-locked GCSEL and amplification characteristics of GCSOA (grating coupled surface emitting semiconductor optical amplifier)

Author

Kim, Kyunghum ; Lee, Shinwook ; Smolski, Oleg ; Delfyett, Peter J., Jr.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Opt., Central Florida Univ., USA

Volume

2

fYear

2003

fDate

27-28 Oct. 2003

Firstpage

555

Abstract

In this paper, we demonstrate an external cavity, active mode-locked GCSEL and amplification characteristics of grating coupled surface emitting semiconductor optical amplifier (GCSOA) using a c.w. external cavity grating coupled surface emitting laser (GCSEL). The experimental results represent a significant a step towards high power optical pulse generation using semiconductor lasers.

Keywords

diffraction gratings; laser cavity resonators; laser mode locking; optical pulse generation; semiconductor optical amplifiers; surface emitting lasers; amplification characteristics; external cavity actively mode-locked laser; grating coupled surface emitting laser; grating coupled surface emitting semiconductor optical amplifier; optical pulse generation; semiconductor laser; Gratings; Holography; Laser beams; Optical coupling; Optical distortion; Optical modulation; Power generation; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission; Surface emitting lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2003. LEOS 2003. The 16th Annual Meeting of the IEEE

ISSN

1092-8081

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7888-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.2003.1252920

Filename

1252920