Abstract
Potential applications of mode-locked laser diode (MLLD) devices were demonstrated to high-speed optical communication and optical measurement. The features of these devices were due to the rigid control of nonlinear-optical properties inside them. An optical-sampling-based pump-probe measurement of the absorption recovery time was performed in a semiconductor waveguide saturable absorber (SWSA), which was a part of MLLD device. Results revealed that the longer time-constant limited the overall recovery speed of the absorption and caused a harmful pattern effect in the random optical-pulse operation when the SWSA was used as an optical gate-switching device.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages | II498-II499 |
| Publication status | Published - 2001 Dec 1 |
| Externally published | Yes |
| Event | 4th Pacific Rim Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics - Chiba, Japan Duration: 2001 Jul 15 → 2001 Jul 19 |
Other
| Other | 4th Pacific Rim Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics |
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| Country/Territory | Japan |
| City | Chiba |
| Period | 01/7/15 → 01/7/19 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
- Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
- Condensed Matter Physics
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering