DocumentCode
331119
Title
Femto- and picosecond pulse generation from a gain-switched laser diode by means of dispersion-imbalanced fibre loop
Author
Khrushchev, I.Y. ; White, I.H. ; Penty, R.V.
Author_Institution
Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Bristol Univ., UK
Volume
1
fYear
1998
fDate
20-24 Sep 1998
Firstpage
211
Abstract
The generation of high-quality femtosecond and picosecond pulses from a directly-modulated DFB laser diode is demonstrated for the first time in a novel scheme incorporating a dispersion-imbalanced fibre loop mirror
Keywords
electro-optical modulation; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical information processing; optical pulse generation; semiconductor lasers; time division multiplexing; directly-modulated DFB laser diode; dispersion-imbalanced fibre loop; dispersion-imbalanced fibre loop mirror; femtosecond pulse generation; gain-switched laser diode; picosecond pulse generation; Diode lasers; Optical pulse compression; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse compression methods; Pulse generation; Solitons; Ultrafast electronics; Ultrafast optics;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Optical Communication, 1998. 24th European Conference on
Conference_Location
Madrid
Print_ISBN
84-89900-14-0
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ECOC.1998.732507
Filename
732507
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