BUILDUP OF STEADY-STATE PICOSECOND PULSES IN AN ACTIVELY MODE-LOCKED LASER-DIODE ARRAY

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作者
KUO, JC
CHANG, CS
PAN, CL
机构
[1] Institute of Electro-optical Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu
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10.1364/OL.16.001328
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O43 [光学];
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070207 ; 0803 ;
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We have studied experimentally the temporal and spectral characteristics of an actively mode-locked laser-diode array in an external cavity as it evolves to the steady state. It is found that the buildup time to steady-state picosecond pulses takes less than 45 round trips. The number of clusters of the longitudinal-mode spectrum reduces during the evolution and finally approaches a steady-state spectral distribution with the pulse energy mainly distributed among a few clusters near the line center.
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