• DocumentCode
    957325
  • Title

    Bandwidth limited picosecond optical pulse generation from actively mode-locked AlGaAs diode laser

  • Author

    Ito, H. ; Yokoyama, Haruki ; Inaba, Hiromi

  • Author_Institution
    Tohoku University, Research Institute of Electrical Communication, Sendai, Japan
  • Volume
    16
  • Issue
    16
  • fYear
    1980
  • Firstpage
    620
  • Lastpage
    621
  • Abstract
    A simple configuration made of a conventional AlGaAs diode laser without antireflection coating combined with an external reflector and an optical etalon was proved to be practically feasible to generate bandwidth limited mode-locked optical pulses of 30 ps duration by synchronous modulation at the external cavity mode interval. Generated optical pulse shape was found to be Lorentzian rather than Gaussian for the first time, based on the measurements of both the s.h.g. correlation method and the ultrafast streak camera.
  • Keywords
    III-V semiconductors; aluminium compounds; gallium arsenide; semiconductor junction lasers; III-V semiconductors; Lorentzian pulses; external reflector; mode locked AlGaAs diode laser; optical etalon; optical pulse generation; synchronous modulation;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electronics Letters
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0013-5194
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/el:19800430
  • Filename
    4244203