Tunable monolithic colliding pulse mode-locked quantum-well lasers

Author

Wu, M.C. ; Chen, Y.K. ; Tanbun-Ek, T. ; Logan, R.A. ; Chin, M.A.

Author_Institution

AT&T Bell Lab., Murray Hill, NJ, USA

Volume

3

Issue

10

fYear

1991

Firstpage

874

Lastpage

876

Abstract

The tunabilities of both the wavelength and the pulse-width of monolithic mode-locked semiconductor lasers are demonstrated. Pulses shorter than 1.6 ps, tunable over 8.8 mu m, have been generated by a temperature-tuned monolithic colliding pulse mode-locked (CPM) quantum-well laser. For a fixed wavelength, the pulse-width is independently controlled from 1.2 ps to longer than 3 ps by external bandpass filters. Near transform-limited time-bandwidth products of 0.34 were maintained throughout the tuning processes.<>

Keywords

high-speed optical techniques; laser mode locking; laser tuning; semiconductor junction lasers; 1.2 to 3 ps; external bandpass filters; monolithic colliding pulse mode-locked quantum-well lasers; near transform limited time bandwidth products; pulse-width; semiconductor lasers; temperature tuned laser; tunability; wavelength tuning; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Laser mode locking; Laser tuning; Optical filters; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Pulse amplifiers; Quantum well lasers; Space vector pulse width modulation; Tunable circuits and devices;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.93246

Filename

93246