IMPROVEMENTS IN MODE-LOCKED SEMICONDUCTOR DIODE-LASERS USING MONOLITHICALLY INTEGRATED PASSIVE WAVE-GUIDES MADE BY QUANTUM-WELL INTERMIXING

Authors
CAMACHO F AVRUTIN EA CUSUMANO P HELMY AS BRYCE AC MARSH JH
Citation
F. Camacho et al., IMPROVEMENTS IN MODE-LOCKED SEMICONDUCTOR DIODE-LASERS USING MONOLITHICALLY INTEGRATED PASSIVE WAVE-GUIDES MADE BY QUANTUM-WELL INTERMIXING, IEEE photonics technology letters, 9(9), 1997, pp. 1208-1210
Citations number
9
Categorie Soggetti
Optics,"Physics, Applied
Journal title
IEEE photonics technology letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
10411135
Volume
9
Issue
9
Year of publication
1997
Pages
1208 - 1210
Database
ISI
SICI code
1041-1135(1997)9:9<1208:IIMSDU>2.0.ZU;2-#
Abstract
By using the technique of quantum-well intermixing (QWI), monolithical ly integrated passive, and active waveguides can be fabricated. It is shown that mode-locked extended cavity semiconductor lasers with integ rated low-loss passive waveguides display superior performance to devi ces in which the entire waveguide is active: the threshold current is a factor of 3-5 lower, the pulsewidth is reduced from 10.2 ps in the a ll active laser to 3.5 ps in the extended cavity device and there is a decrease in the free-running jitter level from 15 to 6 ps (10 kHz-10 MHz).