MINIATURE PACKAGED ACTIVELY MODE-LOCKED SEMICONDUCTOR-LASER WITH TUNABLE 20 PS TRANSFORM LIMITED PULSES

Miniature, fibre tailed and packaged, wavelength tunable actively mode locked semiconductor lasers have been developed for use as sources of ~20ps transform limited pulses. Continuous stable operation with >40nm tuning ranges centred either at 1.3μm or 1.55μm have been demonstrated. The package has an adjustable cavity length enabling the repetition frequency to be selected between 2 GHz and 8 GHz. Mean output powers in the monomode fibre tail are in the range 10dBm to 5dBm. © 1990, The Institution of Electrical Engineers. All rights reserved.