Generation of wavelength tunable gain-switched pulses from FP MQW lasers with external injection seeding
- 1 August 1997
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
- Vol. 9 (8) , 1087-1089
- https://doi.org/10.1109/68.605509
Abstract
High-repetition rate (20 GHz), wavelength tunable (40 nm) optical pulses have been generated by gain switching of 1.55-/spl mu/m Fabry-Perot (FP) multiple-quantum-well (MQW) lasers using continuous-wave (CW) light injection for longitudinal mode selection. After fiber compression, a pulse duration shorter than 5.8 ps was obtained over the entire wavelength tuning range. The pulsewidth, chirping characteristics and side-mode suppression ratio were investigated as functions of the seeding power and wavelength. In addition, we report on the observation of chaos and period doubling for a gain-switched laser without injection seeding, and show that irregular behavior can be suppressed by injection seeding of the laser.Keywords
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