Coherent light generators – Particular beam control device – Mode locking
Patent
1993-02-09
1994-04-19
Epps, Georgia Y.
Coherent light generators
Particular beam control device
Mode locking
372 6, 372 96, 385 37, H01S 3098
Patent
active
053053362
ABSTRACT:
An optical pulse source includes a semiconductor diode laser, an external optical cavity, and a source of a modulated drive current such that the laser can be actively mode-locked. The external cavity includes an optical fiber and a distributed Bragg reflector. In preferred embodiments, the optical pulse source can produce pulses having a time-bandwidth product within about 20% of the transform limit, such that soliton pulses can be transmitted.
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Adar Renen
Mizrahi Victor
Mollenauer Linn F.
Morton Paul A.
AT&T Bell Laboratories
Epps Georgia Y.
Finston Martin I.
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