Electrically pumped mode-locked vertical-cavity semiconductor lasers

15 November 1993

journal article
Published by Optica Publishing Group in Optics Letters

Vol. 18 (22) , 1937-1939
https://doi.org/10.1364/ol.18.001937

Abstract

We demonstrate what is to our knowledge the first electrically pumped mode-locked vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser. The lasing threshold current is 15 mA with a 1% output coupler. The output pulse width is 80 ps at a repetition rate of 1 GHz.

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