Scollo, Riccardo; Lohe, Hans-Jörg; Robin, Franck; Erni, Daniel; Gini, Emilio; Jäckel, Heinz:
Mode-locked InP-based laser diode with a monolithic integrated UTC absorber for subpicosecond pulse generation
In: IEEE journal of quantum electronics : a publication of the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, Jg. 45 (2009), Heft 4, S. 322 - 335
2009Artikel/Aufsatz in Zeitschrift
Elektrotechnik
Titel:
Mode-locked InP-based laser diode with a monolithic integrated UTC absorber for subpicosecond pulse generation
Autor*in:
Scollo, Riccardo;Lohe, Hans-Jörg;Robin, Franck;Erni, DanielUDE
GND
1175897205
LSF ID
47126
ORCID
0000-0002-1467-6373ORCID iD
Sonstiges
der Hochschule zugeordnete*r Autor*in
;
Gini, Emilio;Jäckel, Heinz
Erscheinungsjahr:
2009

Abstract:

Future optical transmission systems and signal processing circuits will require optical pulse sources capable of producing subpicosecond (sub-ps) pulses with low timing jitter at repetition rates of tens of gigahertz. In this paper, we present the theory, design, and measurements of a novel InP-based hybrid mode-locked laser diode (MLLD) structure with an ultrafast monolithically integrated, reverse-biased, uni-traveling-carrier(UTC) absorber. The necessity of an ultrafast absorber to obtain sub-ps pulses is analyzed and explained with our advanced time-domain rate-equation model. The realized MLLD demonstrated clean sub-ps pulses of 900 fs at 42-GHz repetition rate and the potential in an optimized device to reach values around 600 fs.