Semiconductor optical amplifier based high duty-cycle, self-starting figure-eight 17 GHz laser source
Author(s) -
Seong-sik Min,
Yucheng Zhao,
Simon Fleming
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
optics express
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.394
H-Index - 271
ISSN - 1094-4087
DOI - 10.1364/oe.17.006187
Subject(s) - optics , duty cycle , laser , optical amplifier , materials science , amplifier , semiconductor laser theory , wavelength , semiconductor , second harmonic generation , mode locking , optoelectronics , pulse (music) , physics , power (physics) , cmos , quantum mechanics , detector
The operation of a self-starting, passively harmonic modelocked, figure-eight laser is experimentally demonstrated. A stable pulse train with near half duty-cycle is produced at a repetition rate of 1.7 GHz at 1536 nm wavelength without any starting/triggering mechanism and stays modelocked as long as it is being pumped.
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