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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 23, 1993
Filed:
Feb. 05, 1992
Applicant:
Inventor:
Peter J Delfyett, Jr, Middletown, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Bell Communications Research, Inc., Livingston, NJ (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01S / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
372 11 ; 359245 ; 372 18 ; 372 20 ; 372 25 ;
Abstract
A saturable absorber comprising multiple quantum-well layers (32, 34, 36) of differing thicknesses and separated by barrier layers (38) so as to produce a wide-band absorption. Such a saturable absorber (30) is useful in a hybrid mode-locked laser having an optical cavity defined by two mirrors (10, 12) into which are placed the saturable absorber (30) and an optical amplifier (14) driven by both a DC bias and an RF modulation signal.