Anti-colliding design for monolithic passively mode-locked semiconductor lasers
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Javaloyes, J.; Balle, S.
- Source
- 2012 38th European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communications Optical Communications (ECOC), 2012 38th European Conference and Exhibition on. :1-3 Sep, 2012
- Subject
- Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Laser mode locking
Cavity resonators
Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers
Laser theory
Power generation
- Language
- ISSN
- 1550-381X
The performance of two-section, passively mode-locked semiconductor lasers is theoretically analyzed for different cavity designs. Contrary to the intuition, placing the saturable absorber section close to an anti-reflection coated facet leads to a substantial increase in output power, reduces the jitter and broadens the region of stable operation.