Title :
Ultrafast optoelectronics-from science to the real world
Author_Institution :
AT&T Bell Labs., Holmdel, NJ, USA
Abstract :
A careful analysis of potential applications of ultrafast optoelectronic technology reveals that some of the more near-term applications in fact do not have anything to do with high speed. Instead, they utilize some other characteristics of ultrashort laser pulses such as large spectral bandwidth, high intensity, short coherence length, timing stability or repetition rate. In this talk, we discuss which ultrafast applications this “paradigm shift” has stimulated and review progress in this field. In particular, we discuss the use of ultrashort light pulses for semiconductor wafer processing, confocal imaging, T-ray imaging, gas monitoring, ranging, coherence tomography, and for wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) in optical communications
Keywords :
high-speed optical techniques; T-ray imaging; applications; coherence length; coherence tomography; confocal imaging; gas monitoring; intensity; optical communications; ranging; repetition rate; semiconductor wafer processing; spectral bandwidth; timing stability; ultrafast optoelectronic technology; ultrashort laser pulses; wavelength division multiplexing; Bandwidth; Coherence; Laser stability; Laser theory; Monitoring; Optical imaging; Optical pulses; Semiconductor lasers; Timing; Wavelength division multiplexing;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting, 1995. 8th Annual Meeting Conference Proceedings, Volume 1., IEEE
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-2450-1
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.1995.484892
