Title :
Femtosecond periodic gain vertical-cavity lasers
Author :
Jiang, Wenbin ; Shimizu, Mitsuaki ; Mirin, Richard P. ; Reynolds, Thomas E. ; Bowers, John E.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., California Univ., Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Abstract :
A periodic gain structure is used as the gain medium in a mode-locked vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser to decrease the effect of carrier diffusion. A laser pulse width of under 190 fs is directly generated from the laser cavity.<>
Keywords :
distributed Bragg reflector lasers; high-speed optical techniques; laser cavity resonators; laser mode locking; semiconductor lasers; 190 fs; AlAs-Ga/sub 0.8/Al/sub 0.2/As-GaAs; DBR mirror; VCSEL; carrier diffusion; femtosecond periodic gain structure; laser pulse width; mode-locked vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser; Birefringence; Filters; Gallium arsenide; Laser mode locking; Mirrors; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Periodic structures; Surface emitting lasers; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers;
Journal_Title :
Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
