MODE-LOCKING AND FREQUENCY TUNING OF A LASER DIODE-ARRAY IN AN EXTENDED CAVITY WITH A PHOTOREFRACTIVE PHASE CONJUGATE MIRROR

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作者
SEGEV, M
OPHIR, Y
FISCHER, B
EISENSTEIN, G
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[1] Department of Electrical Engineering, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
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10.1063/1.103843
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O59 [应用物理学];
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We demonstrate active mode locking and a tunable narrow spectrum under cw conditions in an extended cavity laser which uses an AlGaAs/GaAs array gain medium and an external feedback from a self-pumped photorefractive phase conjugate mirror. The mirror ensures self-aligned, spatially matched feedback. The mode-locked pulses are 92 ps wide. The tuning, obtained by an intracavity grating, has a range of 70 Å under cw conditions.
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