Title :
Femtosecond semiconductor lasers
Author_Institution :
Phys. & Astron., Univ. of Southampton, Southampton, UK
Abstract :
Passive modelocking of surface-emitting semiconductor quantum well lasers can generate transform-limited optical pulses with duration comparable to the carrier-carrier scattering time. The presentation describes recent advances in this field.
Keywords :
laser mode locking; optical pulse generation; quantum well lasers; femtosecond semiconductor lasers; optical pulse generation; passive mode locking; semiconductor quantum well lasers; surface-emitting lasers; Laser mode locking; Optical fibers; Power lasers; Ultrafast optics; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2011 Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1223-4
