Short pulse generation with 40 GHz passively-mode locked Q-dashed Fabry-Pérot laser

Author

Latkowski, Sylwester ; Maldonado-Basilio, Ramón ; Landais, Pascal

Author_Institution

Res. Inst. for Networks & Commun. Eng. (RINCE), Dublin City Univ., Dublin, Ireland

fYear

2009

fDate

June 28 2009-July 2 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Generation of sub-picosecond pulses by a DC-biased passively mode-locked Fabry-Perot laser is demonstrated. By using a tunable band-pass filter, it is observed that the width of the generated pulses decreases in direct proportion to the optical modes emitted by the laser. Furthermore, performing a passive compression by a piece of single mode fiber, we demonstrate the generation of 720 fs pulses by this type of mode-locked Fabry-Perot laser.

Keywords

band-pass filters; laser mode locking; laser tuning; optical fibres; optical filters; optical pulse compression; optical pulse generation; quantum dash lasers; DC-biased Fabry-Perot laser; Q-dashed Fabry-Perot laser; frequency 40 GHz; optical modes; passive pulse compression; passively-mode locked laser; quantum-dash semiconductor laser; short pulse generation; single mode fiber; sub-picosecond pulse generation; time 720 fs; tunable band-pass filter; Band pass filters; Fabry-Perot; Fiber lasers; Laser mode locking; Optical filters; Optical pulse generation; Pulse generation; Space vector pulse width modulation; Stimulated emission; Tunable circuits and devices; mode-locked lasers; quantum-dash semiconductor lasers; sub-picosecond pulse generation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks, 2009. ICTON '09. 11th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Azores

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4825-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4827-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2009.5185252

Filename

5185252