High-speed wavelength-swept semiconductor laser with a polygon-scanner-based wavelength filter.

@article{Yun2003HighspeedWS,
  title={High-speed wavelength-swept semiconductor laser with a polygon-scanner-based wavelength filter.},
  author={Seok-Hyun Yun and Caroline Boudoux and Guillermo J. Tearney and Brett E. Bouma},
  journal={Optics letters},
  year={2003},
  volume={28 20},
  pages={
          1981-3
        },
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:16141891}
}
Ultrahigh-speed tuning of an extended-cavity semiconductor laser is demonstrated, which is more than an order of magnitude faster than previously demonstrated and is facilitated in part by self-frequency shifting in the semiconductor optical amplifier.
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