EFFICIENT GAIN SWITCHING OF LASER-DIODES WITH QUARTER-WAVE IMPEDANCE TRANSFORMER

Authors
HO KW SHU C
Citation
Kw. Ho et C. Shu, EFFICIENT GAIN SWITCHING OF LASER-DIODES WITH QUARTER-WAVE IMPEDANCE TRANSFORMER, Electronics Letters, 29(13), 1993, pp. 1194-1195
Citations number
6
Categorie Soggetti
Engineering, Eletrical & Electronic
Journal title
Electronics Letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
00135194
Volume
29
Issue
13
Year of publication
1993
Pages
1194 - 1195
Database
ISI
SICI code
0013-5194(1993)29:13<1194:EGSOLW>2.0.ZU;2-S
Abstract
A quarter-wave transformer is used in the electronic gain switching of laser diodes. As compared to the conventional matching technique, an improvement of 3 dB in the peak optical power is obtained, agreeing we ll with the authors' theoretical predictions.