Assessment of switching speed of optical bistability in semiconductor laser amplifiers
Abstract
Measured hysteresis characteristics are presented for a bistable Fabry-Perot laser amplifier operating at high switching rates. The results show that optical bistability ceases to be evident at a repetition frequency of around 250 MHz, corresponding to a data rate of 500 Mbit/s, which indicates switching times commensurate with the carrier recombination time.
- Publication:
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Electronics Letters
- Pub Date:
- May 1986
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 1986ElL....22..541W
- Keywords:
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- Fabry-Perot Interferometers;
- Hysteresis;
- Optical Bistability;
- Optical Switching;
- Semiconductor Lasers;
- Gallium Arsenides;
- Indium Phosphides;
- Refractivity;
- Spectrum Analysis;
- Lasers and Masers