Ultrafast lasers, which generate optical pulses in the picosecond and femtosecond range,
have progressed over the past decade from complicated and specialized laboratory systems …

Optical memory storage devices such as compact disks (CD) and magnetooptical (MO) disks
are becoming essential as audio and visual storage media as well as external computer …

A promising route to manufacturing portable (sub-) picosecond fibre lasers is to use a
semiconductor saturable absorber mirror (SESAM). With SESAMs, the mode-locked regime …

This paper will review and discuss pico-and femtosecond pulse generation from passively
modelocked vertical–external-cavity surface-emitting semiconductor lasers (VECSELs). We …

Monolithic and multi-GigaHertz mode-locked semiconductor lasers: Constructions, experiments,
models and applications Page 1 Monolithic and multi-GigaHertz mode-locked semiconductor …

Photonics is a fast and galloping technology related to both microwave and optics science.
Photonics is a very vast and distinctive field in recent days. Due to the enlarged difficulty of …

A surface-emitting semiconductor laser has been passively mode locked in an external
cavity incorporating a semiconductor saturable absorber mirror. The gain medium consists …

Future bandwidth demand in optical communication and signal processing systems will
soon exceed 100 Gb s− 1 as is commonly forecasted from a throughput experience curve for …

As recognized almost immediately following the design of the first laser [1, 2], lasers are
dynamical systems capable of exhibiting a wide variety of nonlinear dynamics. For many …

Optical frequency combs, establish a rigid phase-coherent link between microwave and
optical domains and are emerging as high-precision tools in an increasing number of …