MULTICOLOR SINGLE-WAVELENGTH SOURCES GENERATED BY A MONOLITHIC COLLIDING PULSE MODE-LOCKED QUANTUM-WELL LASER

被引:12
作者
CHEN, YK
WU, MC
TANBUNEK, T
LOGAN, RA
CHIN, MA
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[1] AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill
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10.1109/68.97830
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TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
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0808 ; 0809 ;
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Multicolor single-wavelength laser sources are generated by narrow-band spectral filtering of a 300 GHz monolithic colliding pulse mode-locked semiconductor laser. Experimentally, the selected longitudinal mode shows a 10-dB reduction of low-frequency relative intensity noise, compared to that of the selected mode from the same laser in continuous-wave (CW) lasing condition. The strong phase coherence among the passively mode-locked longitudinal modes reduces the partition noise of the unlocked CW laser.
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