This application provides a tunable optical pulse source
chip, relating to the field of
semiconductor optoelectronic integrated device technology. The optical pulse source
chip includes: a
gain region for generating and amplifying an optical
signal; a pulse selection region for receiving an external periodic electrical
signal to form a periodically switching switching window, through which the amplified optical
signal passes or is blocked; and a
saturable absorption region for nonlinearly absorbing the optical signal passing through the pulse selection region to achieve
mode locking, thereby generating and outputting an optical pulse. The repetition frequency of the optical pulse is tunable by controlling the frequency of the periodic electrical signal. This application integrates the
gain region, pulse selection region, and
saturable absorption region monolithically, and uses a periodic electrical signal to control the switching window of the pulse selection region. The output optical
pulse repetition frequency is independently controlled by the frequency of the external electrical signal, decoupling the repetition frequency from the cavity length, thus enabling a wide-range, continuously tunable
pulse repetition frequency.