A METHOD AND DEVICE FOR GENERATING SHORT OPTICAL PULSES

摘要

An embodiment of the invention relates to a method for generating short optical pulses comprising the steps of:
operating a single section semiconductor laser in a nonlinear regime to emit chirped optical pulses at an output facet of the laser cavity, and
compressing the chirped optical pulses outside the laser cavity using a dispersive element in order to generate the short optical pulses.