Abstract
Short optical pulse generation from an external-cavity laser diode (LD) by optical pulse pumping has been investigated for the first time. An optical pulse train (pulse duration ∼40 ps) generated by a gain-switched LD was injected into a LD with an external cavity (slave LD) which was biased just below the laser threshold. The wavelength of the injected optical pulse was chosen to be slightly shorter than that of the slave LD. When the repetition rate of the optical injection pulse was nearly equal to the round trip time of the external cavity, the slave LD showed stable mode locking with the shorter pulse duration (∼22 ps) than that of the pumping pulse. At both the upper and lower repetition rates, the pulse duration of the slave LD also became shorter than that of the pumping pulse.
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