Optically programmable mode-locked laser
Abstract
We demonstrate an optically mode-locked laser that generates a repetitive pattern of ultrashort pulses when driven by a repetitive pattern of optical pulses from an external source. Two modes of operation are described: in one mode of operation the generated pattern is determined directly by the driving pulse train; in the other mode it represents the result of logic operations between elements of the driving pulse train.
- Publication:
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IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
- Pub Date:
- July 1994
- DOI:
- 10.1109/68.311458
- Bibcode:
- 1994IPTL....6..799O
- Keywords:
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- Laser Mode Locking;
- Laser Modes;
- Light Modulation;
- Pulsed Lasers;
- Multiplexing;
- Ring Lasers;
- Switching;
- Lasers and Masers