Published September 1, 1981
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Bistability and pulsations in cw semiconductor lasers with a controlled amount of saturable absorption
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- Harder, Ch.
- Lau, K. Y.
- Yariv, A.
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Abstract
Experimental results of a buried heterostructure cw laser with a controllable amount of saturable absorption introduced by a segmented contact are presented. With no absorption the laser is stable and has a linear output characteristic. Increasing of the saturable absorption by changing the pump current through the control segment causes the light output of the device to pulsate and to show bistable and hysteretical behavior. The introduction of a controllable amount of saturable absorption suggest the usefulness of this device in generating extremely short pulses, for example, by passive mode locking and as a bistable optical device.
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Copyright © 1981 American Institute of Physics. Received 15 May 1981; accepted for publication 23 June 1981. This research was supported by the Office of Naval Research, the National Science Foundation under the Optical Communication Program and by the Army Research Office.Files
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