Femtosecond optical pulses are used to determine the roundtrip propagation delay in AlGaAs diode lasers. By using pulses at different wavelengths, we have determined the dispersion in group index to be dngdλ = − 2.9µm−1 in these devices.
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Kesler et al. (1989) studied this question.