Numerical model of the optical stark effect as a mode-locking mechanism for femtosecond vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting semiconductor lasers

Author

Daniell, G.J. ; Mihoubi, Z. ; Wilcox, K.G. ; Tropper, A.C.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Phys. & Astron., Univ. of Southampton, Southampton

fYear

2008

fDate

4-9 May 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

A pulse is shortened by repeated transits of a quantum well absorber in which the band-edge is detuned to higher energy. The calculated effect is consistent with the experimentally observed formation of 448-fs transform-limited pulses.

Keywords

Stark effect; high-speed optical techniques; laser mode locking; quantum wells; semiconductor lasers; surface emitting lasers; femtosecond vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting laser; mode-locking mechanism; optical Stark effect; quantum well absorber; semiconductor laser; transform limited pulse; Laser mode locking; Nonlinear optics; Numerical models; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulse shaping; Semiconductor lasers; Stark effect; Surface emitting lasers; Ultrafast optics; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers; (140.4050) Mode-locked lasers; (140.5960) Semiconductor lasers; (140.7270) Vertical emitting lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

iet

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2008 and 2008 Conference on Quantum Electronics and Laser Science. CLEO/QELS 2008. Conference on

Conference_Location

San Jose, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-55752-859-9

Type

conf

Filename

4571645