Intracavity spectral shaping and inverse bow-tie semiconductor optical amplifiers for high-power hybrid mode-locked semiconductor lasers

Author

Gee, S. ; Alphonse, G. ; Barty, C. ; Connolly, J. ; Delfyett, P.J.

Author_Institution

Center for Res. & Educ. in Opt. & Lasers, Central Florida Univ., Orlando, FL, USA

fYear

1998

fDate

3-8 May 1998

Firstpage

442

Lastpage

443

Abstract

Summary form only given. We have presented results that show the promise of intracavity spectral shaping to avoid gain-narrowing effects in modelocked semiconductor diode lasers and have produced optical pulses of 330 fs duration. High average powers were obtained by employing novel inverse bow-tie semiconductor optical amplifiers and have generated average mode-locked output powers of 0.4 W.

Keywords

high-speed optical techniques; laser cavity resonators; laser mode locking; semiconductor lasers; spectral line breadth; spectral line narrowing; 0.4 W; 330 fs; average mode-locked output powers; fs duration optical laser pulses; gain-narrowing effects; high average powers; high-power hybrid mode-locked semiconductor lasers; intracavity spectral shaping; inverse bow-tie semiconductor optical amplifiers; modelocked semiconductor diode lasers; Diode lasers; Hybrid power systems; Laser mode locking; Nonlinear optics; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Power generation; Quantum well devices; Semiconductor lasers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 1998. CLEO 98. Technical Digest. Summaries of papers presented at the Conference on

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-339-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.1998.676473

Filename

676473