COHERENT PHOTON SEEDING OF ACTIVELY MODE-LOCKED LASER-DIODES

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作者
KAWAGUCHI, H
SARWAR, AK
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[1] Faculty of Engineering, Yamagata University, Yonezawa-shi, Yamagata 992, 4-3-16, Jonan
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10.1063/1.109456
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O59 [应用物理学];
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We have applied a coherent photon seeding technique to actively mode locked laser diodes for the first time and successfully achieved a single longitudinal laser diode mode operation with a side mode suppression ratio of - 20 dB. We have also proposed a new kind of pulse compressor consisting of a grating and a plane mirror, which gives positive group velocity dispersion. We obtained 11 ps pulses with spectral width of 0.32 nm. This gives us a time bandwidth product of 0.63, which is approximately twice the transform limited value for a sech2 pulse.
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