Dynamical properties of quantum dot semiconductor optical amplifiers at 1.3 μm fiber-coupled to quantum dot mode-locked lasers

Author

Laemmlin, M. ; Fiol, Gerrit ; Kuntz, M. ; Hopfer, F. ; Bimberg, Dieter ; Kovsh, A.R. ; Ledentsov, Nikolay N.

Author_Institution

Inst. fuer Festkoerperphys., Tech. Univ. Berlin, Berlin

fYear

2006

fDate

21-26 May 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

We report ultrafast amplification of mode-locked laser pulses down to a width of 710 fs at 20 and 80 GHz with a semiconductor optical amplifier, both devices based on the same quantum dot material.

Keywords

high-speed optical techniques; laser beams; laser mode locking; optical fibre couplers; quantum dot lasers; semiconductor optical amplifiers; dynamical property; fiber-coupling; frequency 20 GHz; frequency 80 GHz; quantum dot mode-locked laser; quantum dot semiconductor optical amplifier; time 710 fs; ultrafast amplification; wavelength 1.3 mum; Fiber lasers; Laser mode locking; Optical fiber devices; Optical materials; Optical pulses; Pulse amplifiers; Quantum dot lasers; Semiconductor lasers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Space vector pulse width modulation; (140.4050) Mode-locked lasers; (250.4480) Optical amplifiers; (250.5980) Semiconductor optical amplifiers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2006 and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2006. Conference on

Conference_Location

Long Beach, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-55752-813-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-55752-813-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.2006.4627999

Filename

4627999