TY - JOUR
TI - Tunable master-oscillator power-amplifier based on chirped quantum-dot structures
AU - Ding, Y.
AU - Alhazime, A.
AU - Nikitichev, D.
AU - Fedorova, K.
AU - Ruiz, M.
AU - Tran, M.
AU - Robert, Y.
AU - Kapsalis, A.
AU - Simos, H.
AU - Mesaritakis, C.
AU - Xu, T.
AU - Bardella, P.
AU - Rossetti, M.
AU - Krestnikov, I.
AU - Livshits, D.
AU - Montrosset, I.
AU - Syvridis, D.
AU - Cataluna, M.A.
AU - Krakowski, M.
AU - Rafailov, E.
JO - IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
PY - 2012
VL - 24
TODO - 20
SP - 1841-1844
PB - 
SN - 1041-1135
TODO - 10.1109/LPT.2012.2216516
TODO - External cavity;  master-oscillator power-amplifier;  Mode-locked;  Modelocking;  Optical pulse sources;  Output peak power;  Passively mode-locked lasers;  Picoseconds;  Quantum dot structure;  Semiconductor amplifiers;  Tunabilities, Lasers;  Passive mode locking;  Power spectral density;  Semiconductor quantum dots, Saturable absorbers
TODO - A broadly tunable master-oscillator power-amplifier (MOPA) picosecond optical pulse source is demonstrated, consisting of an external cavity passively mode-locked laser diode with a tapered semiconductor amplifier. By employing chirped quantum-dot structures on both the oscillator's gain chip and amplifier, a wide tunability range between 1187 and 1283 nm is achieved. Under mode-locked operation, the highest output peak power of 4.39 W is achieved from the MOPA, corresponding to a peak power spectral density of 31.4 dBm/nm. © 1989-2012 IEEE.
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