Title :
Mechanism of harmonic mode locking of the regeneratively mode-locked laser diode
Author :
Ohno, T. ; Ito, T. ; Yoshino, K. ; Ito, H.
Author_Institution :
NTT Photonics Labs., NTT Corp., Kanagawa, Japan
Abstract :
It was found that the harmonic frequency optical injection locking of the regeneratively mode-locked laser diode occurs through the difference frequency component generation. Synchronization with up to 320-GHz input was also confirmed.
Keywords :
laser mode locking; optical fibre communication; optical harmonic generation; semiconductor lasers; synchronisation; time division multiplexing; 320 GHz; difference frequency component generation; harmonic mode locking; optical fiber transmission systems; optical injection locking; optical time-division multiplexing; regeneratively mode-locked laser diode; synchronization; Clocks; Diode lasers; Frequency; Injection-locked oscillators; Laser mode locking; Optical devices; Optical filters; Optical modulation; Optical pulses; Power harmonic filters;
Conference_Titel :
Semiconductor Laser Conference, 2004. Conference Digest. 2004 IEEE 19th International
Conference_Location :
Matsue-shi
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8627-2
DOI :
10.1109/ISLC.2004.1382730