Title :
Suppression of side fringes in a low-coherence measurement with gain-switched Fabry-Perot laser diode
Author :
Wada, K. ; Yoshida, M. ; Kitagawa, T. ; Tatekawa, T. ; Yamada, J. ; Sato, H. ; Yamaguchi, Y. ; Matsuyama, T. ; Horinaka, H.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Phys. & Electron., Osaka Prefecture Univ., Japan
Abstract :
To use laser diodes as low-coherence light source, side fringes appearing in the autocorrelation measurement of multi-longitudinal mode oscillation from a gain-switched Fabry-Perot laser diode were effectively suppressed by applying a lightwave synthesis technique.
Keywords :
high-speed optical techniques; light coherence; light interferometry; light sources; semiconductor lasers; autocorrelation measurement; gain-switched Fabry-Perot laser diode; lightwave synthesis technique; low-coherence light source; multilongitudinal mode oscillation; side fringes suppression;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2004. (CLEO). Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-777-6
