Picosecond visible light pulse generation using Q-switching in (GaIn)P laser diode

Author

Batovrin, V.K. ; Zverkov, M.V. ; Konyaev, V.P. ; Krichevsky, V.V. ; Shramenko, M.V. ; Yakubovich, S.D.

Author_Institution

United Optoelectron. Lab. MIREA, Moscow, Russia

Volume

2

fYear

1996

fDate

18-21 Nov. 1996

Abstract

Picosecond light pulse generators are widely used in optical metrology, high-speed optoelectronics, spectroscopy etc. For the applications that do not need pulses of high energy (E<100 pJ) such generators based on laser diodes (LDs) are most suitable due to their well-known advantages. The simplest method of obtaining pulses of the order of 10 ps duration is Q-switching in LDs integrated with saturable absorbers. The devices of this type for near IR range are commercially produced by several firms. The present work is devoted to similar visible light emitters based on GaInP-AlGaInP DH LDs.

Keywords

III-V semiconductors; Q-switching; distributed Bragg reflector lasers; gallium arsenide; gallium compounds; high-speed optical techniques; indium compounds; laser mode locking; optical saturable absorption; optical saturable absorption5622437; pulse generators; quantum well lasers; semiconductor lasers; spectroscopic light sources; (GaIn)P laser diode; 10 ps; 100 pJ; GaInP-AlGaInP; GaInP-AlGaInP DH LDs; Q-switching; high-speed optoelectronics; optical metrology; picosecond visible light pulse generation; saturable absorbers; spectroscopic light sources; spectroscopy; visible light emitters; Diode lasers; Pulse generation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting, 1996. LEOS 96., IEEE

Conference_Location

Boston, MA, USA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3160-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.1996.571559

Filename

571559