Abstract

Recently high speed, high power semiconductor lasers with impulse responses of 13 ps, peak powers of tens of milliwatts, and modulation capabilities to 40 GHz have been demonstrated. These small, efficient sources are useful for fiber optic communications, microwave signal transmission for instrument, satellite and military applications, and they can serve as convenient benchtop sources for physics experiments and optical device characterization.

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