Abstract
Two-contact laser diodes with unbiased saturable absorber sections have been widely studied.1 Recently it was demonstrated that such devices cart be used as nonlinear amplifiers.2 We report, we believe for the first time, use of a two-contact laser amplifier to beneficially compress, shape, and amplify the pulses from an actively mode-locked packaged semiconductor laser.3
© 1990 Optical Society of America
PDF ArticleMore Like This
P. B. Hansen, G. Raybon, U. Koren, B. I. Miller, M. G. Young, M. A. Newkirk, C. A. Burras, and P. P. Iannone
A4 Ultrafast Electronics and Optoelectronics (UEO) 1993
D.M. Cooper, M. Bagley, L.D. Westbrook, D.J. Elton, H.J. Wickes, M.J. Harlow, M.R. Aylett, and W.J. Devlin
PD32 Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC) 1990
R. NIETZKB, J. SACHER, and W. ELSASSER
CFL2 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO:S&I) 1990