Ultrafast semiconductor lasers: pulse generation and stabilization
P. Bardella1, L.L. Columbo1, M. Gioannini1, O. Nikiforov2, T. Walther2, A. Klehr3, A. Knigge3, S. Meinecke4, L. Jaurigue4, K. Lüdge4, J. Javaloyes5, L.F. Lester6, C. Weber7, D. Auth7, S. Stutz7, M. Birkholz7, L. Drzewietzki7, S. Breuer7
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IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC), Reston, USA, Sep. 30 - Oct. 4 (2018).
Abstract:
Progress in the generation and stabilization of optical pulse trains of edge-emitting passively mode-locked (PML) quantum dot (QD) and quantum well (QW) lasers and self-mode locked (SML) QD lasers is addressed. The mechanism responsible for the timing phase noise (TPN) reduction and repetition rate (RR) agility in PML QD and QW lasers and in SML QD lasers by time-delayed feedback (FB) and synchronization is investigated by a simple time-domain (TD) model.
1 Dipartimento di Elettronica e Telecom., Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy
2 Institut für Angewandte Physik, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
3 Ferdinand-Braun-Institut, Leibniz-Institut für Höchstfrequenztechnik, Berlin, Germany
4 Institut für Theoretische Physik, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
5 Departamento de Fisica, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
6 Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, USA
7 Institut für Angewandte Physik, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
Index Terms:
ultrafast optical pulse generation, timing jitter, quantum dot and quantum well lasers, passive mode-locking, optical frequency comb lasers
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