312-fs pulse generation from a passive C-band InAs/InP quantum dot mode-locked laser

doi:10.1364/OE.16.010835

312-fs pulse generation from a passive C-band InAs/InP quantum dot mode-locked laser

Z. G. Lu, J. R. Liu, S. Raymond, P. J. Poole, P. J. Barrios, and D. Poitras »View Author Affiliations

Optics Express, Vol. 16, Issue 14, pp. 10835-10840 (2008)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.16.010835

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For the first time, we report femtosecond pulses from a passive single-section InAs/InP quantum-dot (QD) mode-locked laser (MLL) with the active length of 456 µm and ridge width of 2.5 µm at the C-band wavelength range. Without any external pulse compression, the transform-limited Gaussian-pulses are generated at the 92 GHz repetition rate with the 312 fs pulse duration, which is the shortest pulse from any directly electric-pumping semiconductor MLLs to our best knowledge. The lasing threshold injection current and external differential quantum efficiency are 17.2 mA and 38%, respectively. We have also investigated the working principles of the proposed QD MLLs.

OCIS Codes
(140.4050) Lasers and laser optics : Mode-locked lasers
(140.5960) Lasers and laser optics : Semiconductor lasers
(190.4360) Nonlinear optics : Nonlinear optics, devices
(230.5590) Optical devices : Quantum-well, -wire and -dot devices
(320.2250) Ultrafast optics : Femtosecond phenomena

ToC Category:
Ultrafast Optics

History
Original Manuscript: May 13, 2008
Revised Manuscript: June 9, 2008
Manuscript Accepted: June 25, 2008
Published: July 3, 2008

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Z. G. Lu, J. R. Liu, S. Raymond, P. J. Poole, P. J. Barrios, and D. Poitras, "312-fs pulse generation from a passive C-band InAs/InP quantum dot mode-locked laser," Opt. Express 16, 10835-10840 (2008)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-16-14-10835

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Z. G. Lu, J. R. Liu, S. Raymond, P. J. Poole, P. J. Barrios, G. Pakulski, D. Poitras, F. G. Sun, S. Taebi, and T. J. Hall, "Ultra-broadband quantum-dot semiconductor optical amplifier and its applications," The Proceedings of the Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC??2007), Anaheim, California, USA, paper JThA33, (25-29 March 2007).
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Accard, A.
Aitchison, J. S.
Anantathanasarn, S.
Aubin, G.
Baek, J. H.
Barrios, P.
Barrios, P. J.
Bente, E. A.
Bock, P. J.
Brenot, R.
Broeke, R. G.
Cataluna, M. A.
Chen, J.
Cheng, J. L.
Dagens, B.
Du, Y. X.
Duan, G. H.
Fontaine, N. K.
Gallion, P.
Gosset, C.
Hall, T. J.
Heck, M. J.
Huang, X. D.
Jin, C.
Landreau, J.
Legouezigou, O.
Lelarge, F.
Lester, F.
Li, H.
Liu, J. R.
Lourdudoss, S.
Lu, Z. G.
Malloy, K. J.
Martinez, A.
Meier, J.
Merghem, K.
Mojahedi, M.
Moreau, G.
Notzel, R.
Oei, Y. S.
Olsson, F.
Pakulski, G.
Patriarche, G.
Pham, A. V. H.
Poingt, F.
Poitras, D.
Pommereau, F.
Poole, P. J.
Rafailov, E. U.
Ramdane, A.
Raymond, S.
Renaudier, J.
Rotter, T. J.
Rousseau, B.
Sato, K.
Scherer, A.
Seo, S. W.
Shearn, M.
Sibbett, W.
Smalbrugge, B.
Smit, M. K.
Smith, P. W. E.
Soares, F. M.
Stintz, A.
Sun, F. G.
Wada, O.
Yan, J.
Yang, C.
Yoo, S. J. B.
Zilkie, A. J.

Appl. Phys. Lett.

X. D. Huang, A. Stintz, H. Li, F. Lester, J. L. Cheng, and K. J. Malloy, "Passive mode-locking in 1.3 µm two-section InAs quantum dot lasers," Appl. Phys. Lett. 78, 2825-2827 (2001). [CrossRef]
C. Gosset, K. Merghem, A. Martinez, G. Moreau, G. Patriarche, G. Aubin, A. Ramdane, J. Landreau, and F. Lelarge, "Subpicosecond pulse generation at 134 GHz using a quantum-dash-based Fabry-Perot lasers emitting at 1.56 μm," Appl. Phys. Lett. 88, 241105 (2006). [CrossRef]

Electron. Lett.

Z. G. Lu, J. R. Liu, S. Raymond, P. J. Poole, P. J. Barrios, D. Poitras, F. G. Sun, G. Pakulski, P. J. Bock, and T. J. Hall, "Highly efficient non-degenerate four-wave mixing in InAs/InGaAsP quantum dots," Electron. Lett. 42, 1112-1113 (2006). [CrossRef]
J. Renaudier, R. Brenot, B. Dagens, F. Lelarge, B. Rousseau, F. Poingt, O. Legouezigou, F. Pommereau, A. Accard, P. Gallion, and G. H. Duan, "45 GHz self-pulsation with narrow linewidth in quantum dot Fabry-Perot semiconductor lasers at 1.5 μm," Electron. Lett. 41, 1007-1008 (2005). [CrossRef]

IEEE J. Quantum Electron.

A. J. Zilkie, J. Meier, M. Mojahedi, P. J. Poole, P. Barrios, D. Poitras, T. J. Rotter, C. Yang, A. Stintz, K. J. Malloy, P. W. E. Smith, and J. S. Aitchison, "Carrier dynamics of quantum-dot, quantum-dash, and quantum-well semiconductor optical amplifiers operating at 1.55 μm," IEEE J. Quantum Electron. 43, 982-991 (2007). [CrossRef]

IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron.

R. G. Broeke, C. Jin, J. Chen, S. W. Seo, Y. X. Du, N. K. Fontaine, J. H. Baek, J. Yan, F. M. Soares, F. Olsson, S. Lourdudoss, A. V. H. Pham, M. Shearn, A. Scherer, and S. J. B. Yoo, "Optical-CDMA in InP," IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron. 13, 1497-1507 (2007). [CrossRef]
K. Sato, "Optical pulse generation using Fabry-Perot lasers under continuous wave operation," IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron. 9, 1288-1296 (2003). [CrossRef]

IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett.

J. R. Liu, Z. G. Lu, S. Raymond, P. J. Poole, P. J. Barrios, and D. Poitras, "1.6-μm multiwavelength emission of an InAs-InGaAsP quantum-dot laser," IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett. 20, 81-83 (2008). [CrossRef]

Nat. Photonics

E. U. Rafailov, M. A. Cataluna, and W. Sibbett, "Mode-locked quantum-dot lasers," Nat. Photonics 1, 395-401 (2007). [CrossRef]

New J. Phys.

O. Wada, "Femtosecond all-optical devices for ultrafast communication and signal processing," New J. Phys. 6, 183-216 (2004). [CrossRef]

Opt. Express

M. J. Heck, E. A. Bente, B. Smalbrugge, Y. S. Oei, M. K. Smit, S. Anantathanasarn, and R. Notzel, "Observation of Q-switching and mode-locking in two-section InAs/InP (100) quantum dot lasers around 1.55 μm," Opt. Express 15, 16292-16301 (2007). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

Other

Z. G. Lu, J. R. Liu, S. Raymond, P. J. Poole, P. J. Barrios, G. Pakulski, D. Poitras, F. G. Sun, S. Taebi, and T. J. Hall, "Ultra-broadband quantum-dot semiconductor optical amplifier and its applications," The Proceedings of the Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC??2007), Anaheim, California, USA, paper JThA33, (25-29 March 2007).

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