All optical mode-locking of Fabry-Perot laser diode by injecting CW light at the center frequency of two longitudinal modes

Author

Kasuya, Hideaki ; Mori, Masakazu ; Goto, Ryosuke ; Suzuki, Motohiro ; Goto, Toshio ; Yamane, Kazuo

Author_Institution

Aichi Inst. of Technol., Toyota, Japan

Volume

2

fYear

1999

fDate

18-22 Oct. 1999

Firstpage

1329

Abstract

A method to mode-lock a Fabry-Perot laser diode by cw light injection is proposed and experimentally investigated. An optical pulse train at the repetition frequency of one Fabry-Perot mode spacing (141 GHz) has been successfully generated.

Keywords

Fabry-Perot resonators; infrared sources; laser beams; laser cavity resonators; laser mode locking; laser modes; multiwave mixing; optical harmonic generation; optical pulse generation; semiconductor lasers; 1.55 mum; 141 GHz; CW light; CW light injection; Fabry-Perot laser diode; Fabry-Perot mode spacing; all optical mode-locking; center frequency; longitudinal modes; mode-locking; optical pulse generation; optical pulse train; repetition frequency; Diode lasers; Fabry-Perot; Frequency; High speed optical techniques; Nonlinear optics; Optical feedback; Optical mixing; Optical modulation; Optical pulse generation; Optical pumping;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, 1999. APCC/OECC '99. Fifth Asia-Pacific Conference on ... and Fourth Optoelectronics and Communications Conference

Conference_Location

Beijing, China

Print_ISBN

7-5635-0402-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APCC.1999.820509

Filename

820509