DocumentCode
1485526
Title
Generation of 140 GHz optical pulses with suppressed amplitude modulation by subharmonic synchronous modelocking of Fabry-Perot semiconductor laser
Author
Wen, Yang Jing ; Novak, D. ; Liu, Hai Feng ; Nirmalathas, A.
Author_Institution
Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Melbourne Univ., Parkville, Vic., Australia
Volume
37
Issue
9
fYear
2001
fDate
4/26/2001 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
581
Lastpage
582
Abstract
140 GHz optical pulses with a pulsewidth of 2.7 ps are generated from a standard Fabry-Perot semiconductor laser using subharmonic optical injection. A new technique based on optical feed forward modulation is also presented to suppress the amplitude modulation associated with subharmonic injection
Keywords
amplitude modulation; electro-optical modulation; laser mode locking; optical pulse generation; semiconductor lasers; 140 GHz; 2.7 ps; Fabry-Perot semiconductor laser; GHz optical pulse generation; GHz optical pulses; optical feed forward modulation; standard Fabry-Perot semiconductor laser; subharmonic injection; subharmonic optical injection; subharmonic synchronous modelocking; suppressed amplitude modulation;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Electronics Letters
Publisher
iet
ISSN
0013-5194
Type
jour
DOI
10.1049/el.20010391
Filename
920927
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