DocumentCode
1066940
Title
3.4 ps wide compressed optical pulses from electrically gain-switched vertical cavity surface emitting laser
Author
Pepeljugoski, Petar ; Lau, Kei May
Author_Institution
Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., California Univ., Berkeley, CA
Volume
30
Issue
6
fYear
1994
fDate
3/17/1994 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
491
Lastpage
492
Abstract
The authors show that by using single mode fibre it is possible to achieve significant compression in optical pulses generated by electrical gain-switching in a vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL). A pulse width of 3.4 ps was achieved, which is, to the authors´ best knowledge, the lowest obtained by electrical gain switching in VCSELs. The measured timing jitter of the compressed pulses is 6.6 ps and is almost identical to the timing jitter before compression
Keywords
high-speed optical techniques; laser beams; laser cavity resonators; optical fibres; optical modulation; semiconductor lasers; 3.4 ps; 500 m; 6.6 ps; VCSEL; compressed optical pulses; electrically gain-switched vertical cavity surface emitting laser; pulse width; single mode fibre; timing jitter;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Electronics Letters
Publisher
iet
ISSN
0013-5194
Type
jour
DOI
10.1049/el:19940341
Filename
280549
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