Title :
All optical mode-locking of Fabry-Perot laser diode by injecting CW light at the center frequency of two longitudinal modes
Author :
Kasuya, Hideaki ; Mori, Masakazu ; Goto, Ryosuke ; Suzuki, Motohiro ; Goto, Toshio ; Yamane, Kazuo
Author_Institution :
Aichi Inst. of Technol., Toyota, Japan
Abstract :
A method to mode-lock a Fabry-Perot laser diode by cw light injection is proposed and experimentally investigated. An optical pulse train at the repetition frequency of one Fabry-Perot mode spacing (141 GHz) has been successfully generated.
Keywords :
Fabry-Perot resonators; infrared sources; laser beams; laser cavity resonators; laser mode locking; laser modes; multiwave mixing; optical harmonic generation; optical pulse generation; semiconductor lasers; 1.55 mum; 141 GHz; CW light; CW light injection; Fabry-Perot laser diode; Fabry-Perot mode spacing; all optical mode-locking; center frequency; longitudinal modes; mode-locking; optical pulse generation; optical pulse train; repetition frequency; Diode lasers; Fabry-Perot; Frequency; High speed optical techniques; Nonlinear optics; Optical feedback; Optical mixing; Optical modulation; Optical pulse generation; Optical pumping;
Conference_Titel :
Communications, 1999. APCC/OECC '99. Fifth Asia-Pacific Conference on ... and Fourth Optoelectronics and Communications Conference
Conference_Location :
Beijing, China
Print_ISBN :
7-5635-0402-8
DOI :
10.1109/APCC.1999.820509