Tunability has added an important dimension to a variety of laser devices and led to new
systems and applications. From laser spectroscopy to Bose-Einstein condensation, the one …

Broadly tunable lasers have had, and continue to have, an enormous impact in many and
diverse fields of science and technology. From a renaissance in spectroscopy to laser guide …

A scheme is proposed for increasing the sampling rate of analogue-to-digital (A/D)
conversion by more than an order of magnitude by combining state-of-the-art A/D converters …

By passive mode-locking of a semiconductor laser (/spl lambda/= 1.3 μm) in an external
cavity, 1.6 ps sech 2-shaped pulses are generated with variable repetition rates from 1 to 26 …

Optical pulses are generated from a passively mode-locked dual asymmetric-quantum-well
semiconductor laser mounted in a linear external cavity. The devices are fabricated with two …

For the first time to our knowledge, asymmetric pulse shapes and the linear and nonlinear
chirp from a passively mode-locked semiconductor laser are directly measured. For the laser …

Tunable semiconductor lasers are rapidly becoming widely used in a plethora of
applications including imaging, interferometry, metrology, remote sensing, and …

We demonstrate numerically a novel passive mode-locking mechanism for semiconductor
lasers based on nonlinear directional coupling. In a designed ring cavity a long pulse can be …

Wavelength-tunable picosecond pulses have been generated from an actively mode-locked
laser diode array in an external cavity. The cavity incorporated a folded dispersive delay line …

Until now, the phenomenon of collective spontaneous emission (superradiance) was
studied, as a rule, for the atomic systems with a discrete energy spectrum. However, it …