• DocumentCode
    2882849
  • Title

    Pulsewidth and stability properties of external-cavity mode-locked semiconductor lasers: Simulations and experiments

  • Author

    Mulet, Josep ; Kroh, Marcel ; Mirk, J.

  • Author_Institution
    Inst. Mediterrani d Estudis Avan ats, CSIB-UIB, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
  • fYear
    2005
  • fDate
    12-17 June 2005
  • Firstpage
    7
  • Abstract
    High-quality pulses of around 1 ps are experimentally obtained from an external-cavity mode-locked semiconductor laser. The study demonstrates good quantitative agreement between experimental and numerical results and the theory indicates that further pulse shortening requires limiting the amount of ultrafast gain saturation due to carrier heating dynamics.
  • Keywords
    laser cavity resonators; laser mode locking; laser stability; optical pulse compression; optical pulse generation; semiconductor lasers; 1 ps; carrier heating dynamics; external-cavity lasers; mode-locked lasers; pulse shortening; pulsewidth properties; semiconductor lasers; stability properties; ultrafast gain saturation; Laser feedback; Laser mode locking; Laser stability; Laser theory; Optical feedback; Optical pulses; Pulse amplifiers; Quantum well lasers; Semiconductor lasers; Space vector pulse width modulation;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Quantum Electronics Conference, 2005. EQEC '05. European
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-8973-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/EQEC.2005.1567180
  • Filename
    1567180