Title :
Pulsewidth and stability properties of external-cavity mode-locked semiconductor lasers: Simulations and experiments
Author :
Mulet, Josep ; Kroh, Marcel ; Mirk, J.
Author_Institution :
Inst. Mediterrani d Estudis Avan ats, CSIB-UIB, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Abstract :
High-quality pulses of around 1 ps are experimentally obtained from an external-cavity mode-locked semiconductor laser. The study demonstrates good quantitative agreement between experimental and numerical results and the theory indicates that further pulse shortening requires limiting the amount of ultrafast gain saturation due to carrier heating dynamics.
Keywords :
laser cavity resonators; laser mode locking; laser stability; optical pulse compression; optical pulse generation; semiconductor lasers; 1 ps; carrier heating dynamics; external-cavity lasers; mode-locked lasers; pulse shortening; pulsewidth properties; semiconductor lasers; stability properties; ultrafast gain saturation; Laser feedback; Laser mode locking; Laser stability; Laser theory; Optical feedback; Optical pulses; Pulse amplifiers; Quantum well lasers; Semiconductor lasers; Space vector pulse width modulation;
Conference_Titel :
Quantum Electronics Conference, 2005. EQEC '05. European
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8973-5
DOI :
10.1109/EQEC.2005.1567180
