Recent Advances in Stabilized Ultrafast Modelocked Semiconductor Diode Lasers for High Speed Information Based Applications

Author

Delfyett, Peter J. ; Choi, M. ; Gee, S. ; Kim, J. ; Lee, W. ; Ozharar, S. ; Quinlan, F.

Author_Institution

Coll. of Opt. & Photonics, Central Florida Univ., Orlando, FL

fYear

2006

fDate

Oct. 2006

Firstpage

791

Lastpage

791

Abstract

Novel cavity engineering techniques are used to realize low noise, and stabilized optical frequency combs from quantum well and quantum dot based modelocked semiconductor diode lasers. Applications in high speed signal processing, secure communications and arbitrary waveform generation are highlighted

Keywords

high-speed optical techniques; laser cavity resonators; laser frequency stability; laser mode locking; quantum dot lasers; quantum well lasers; signal processing; arbitrary waveform generation; cavity engineering technique; high speed signal processing; quantum dot laser; quantum well laser; semiconductor diode laser; stabilized optical frequency comb; stabilized ultrafast modelocked laser; Laser modes; Laser noise; Laser stability; Optical noise; Optical signal processing; Quantum dot lasers; Quantum well lasers; Semiconductor device noise; Semiconductor diodes; Semiconductor lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2006. LEOS 2006. 19th Annual Meeting of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Montreal, Que.

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9555-7

Electronic_ISBN

0-7803-9555-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.2006.279005

Filename

4054422