Robust electrically tunable 1.5 μm mode-locked fiber-external-cavity laser
- 28 September 1992
- journal article
- conference paper
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 61 (13) , 1496-1498
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.107527
Abstract
We demonstrate a robust, broadly tunable pulse source operating near 1.55 μm wavelength consisting of a silica fiber external cavity coupled to an antireflection-coated InGaAsP two-section distributed-Bragg-reflector laser. The laser is actively mode locked at a repetition rate of 1.92 GHz to produce nearly transform-limited pulses with full width at half-maximum as low as 24 ps and can be electrically tuned over a wavelength range exceeding 8 nm.Keywords
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