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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 07, 1991
Filed:
Dec. 05, 1989
R Thomas Hawkins, II, Aloha, OR (US);
Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR (US);
Abstract
An ultra-short optical pulse source uses a gain-switched laser diode with a dispersive delay line to compress the optical pulse output from the laser diode, the gain-switched laser diode having particular spectral characteristics. The gain-switched laser diode may be tested by energizing it with a continuous wave signal at or near the lasing threshold level. The resulting spectrum is examined for the presence of satellite spectral intensity features. Those gain-switched laser diodes that exhibit a spectrum having all satellite spectral features below a predetermined level with respect to the intensity of a principal spectral component are selected for use in the ultra-short optical pulse source.