The typical platforms to generate multimode lasers rely on mode locking, achieved via a saturable absorber and fast dynamics of the gain. The authors demonstrate that mode locking in semiconductor photonic bandgap lasers is possible in the absence of a fast nonlinear mechanism, proposing an effective way of generating waveforms à la carte.
- Emmanuel Bourgon
- Sylvain Combrié
- Alfredo De Rossi
