500 GHZ OPTICAL SHORT-PULSE GENERATION FROM A MONOLITHIC PASSIVELY MODE-LOCKED DISTRIBUTED-BRAGG-REFLECTOR LASER-DIODE

Authors
ARAHIRA S OSHIBA S MATSUI Y KUNII T OGAWA Y
Citation
S. Arahira et al., 500 GHZ OPTICAL SHORT-PULSE GENERATION FROM A MONOLITHIC PASSIVELY MODE-LOCKED DISTRIBUTED-BRAGG-REFLECTOR LASER-DIODE, Applied physics letters, 64(15), 1994, pp. 1917-1919
Citations number
13
Categorie Soggetti
Physics, Applied
Journal title
Applied physics letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
00036951
Volume
64
Issue
15
Year of publication
1994
Pages
1917 - 1919
Database
ISI
SICI code
0003-6951(1994)64:15<1917:5GOSGF>2.0.ZU;2-D
Abstract
A 500 GHz optical short pulse train was generated from a passively mod e-locked distributed Bragg reflector laser diode (DBR-LD). The repetit ion frequency was thirteen times the fundamental round trip frequency in the LD, and harmonic mode-locking occurred. The pulse duration was 700 fs and the time-bandwidth product was 0.51, very close to the tran sform-limited value of a Gaussian waveform, 0.44. To our knowledge, th is is the first report on the harmonic mode locking of a monolithic pa ssively mode-locked laser diode.