Title :
Up or down chirping - a recipe to generate sub-200 fs pulses from a dispersion-managed semiconductor laser
Author :
Resan, Bojan ; Archundia, Luis ; Delfyett, Peter J., Jr.
Author_Institution :
CREOL, Central Florida Univ., Orlando, FL, USA
Abstract :
SHG-FROG measurements revealed 185 fs pulses generated by linear down chirping in a dispersion-managed semiconductor mode-locked laser. Compared to up chirping, temporal and spectral semiconductor gain dynamics broaden a mode-locked spectrum for down-chirped pulses.
Keywords :
chirp modulation; laser mode locking; optical harmonic generation; optical pulse generation; semiconductor lasers; 185 fs; 200 fs; SHG-FROG; dispersion-managed semiconductor mode-locked laser; fs pulse generation; linear down chirping; semiconductor gain dynamics; up chirping;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2004. (CLEO). Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-777-6
