Title :
Mode-locking and frequency mixing at THz repetition rates in a sampled-grating DBR mode-locked laser
Author :
Lianping Hou ; Haji, Mohsin ; Marsh, John H.
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Eng., Univ. of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
Abstract :
We report a laser with two different SGDBRs that mode-lock at 640 and 700 GHz repetition rates, respectively. Stable pulse trains at 640 GHz, 666 GHz, and 1.34 THz are observed under particular driving conditions.
Keywords :
distributed Bragg reflector lasers; high-speed optical techniques; laser mode locking; semiconductor lasers; THz repetition rates; driving conditions; frequency 640 GHz to 1.34 THz; laser frequency mixing; laser mode-locking; sampled-grating DBR mode-locked Laser; stable pulse trains; Distributed Bragg reflectors; Frequency modulation; Gain; Laser mode locking; Optical reflection; Semiconductor optical amplifiers;
Conference_Titel :
Photonics Conference (IPC), 2014 IEEE
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
DOI :
10.1109/IPCon.2014.6995339
