APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR NARROWING THE PULSE WIDTH AND STABILIZING THE REPETITION RATE IN SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS EXHIBITING SELF-INDUCED PULSING

摘要

The width of pulses in the output of a semiconductor laser exhibiting self-induced pulsing is narrowed and its repetition rate stabilized by applying to the laser a perturbation signal having a frequency that is related to the pulse repetition rate as the ratio of two integral numbers.