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Lasers
Asymmetric emission spectrum of an injection laser with an external optical feedback
Yu. V. Gulyaev, V. P. Duraev, A. V. Mazur, S. K. Morshnev, A. S. Ryabov, A. V. Frantsesson
Abstract:
A study was made of the feasibility of reducing the width of the emission spectrum of a single-frequency injection laser of the ILPN-202 type (λ = 1.3 μm) by establishing an external optical feedback. The temperature of the laser was stabilized near 18 °C to within 5 X 10 –3 °C and the current was kept constant to within 10 μA. The emission spectrum was recorded using a Fabry–Perot scanning interferometer. The experimental results were interpreted on the basis of a theory allowing for the amplitude–phase coupling. Criteria of stable single-frequency emission in the presence of an external optical feedback were established. The following quantities were determined: the amplitude–phase coupling constant α = 4 ± 0.5; the width of the emission line of an isolated injection laser Δν0 = 60 MHz obtained when the injection current exceeded the threshold by the factor J/Jth = 2; the coherence length ofthe radiation of an isolated laser (236 cm) in the case when J/Jth = 1.3. An estimate was obtained of the width of a laser line in the presence of an external optical feedback and the value obtained was Δν = 600 kHz. The spectrum of an optical signal frequency modulated at 30 MHz was determined when the depth of modulation ofthe pump current was less than 1%. The slope ofthe modulation characteristic of the injection laser in the presence of an optical feedback was 200 MHz/mA.
Received: 18.09.1986 Revised: 06.02.1987
Citation:
Yu. V. Gulyaev, V. P. Duraev, A. V. Mazur, S. K. Morshnev, A. S. Ryabov, A. V. Frantsesson, “Asymmetric emission spectrum of an injection laser with an external optical feedback”, Kvantovaya Elektronika, 15:2 (1988), 247–252 [Sov J Quantum Electron, 18:2 (1988), 156–160]
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https://www.mathnet.ru/eng/qe11244 https://www.mathnet.ru/eng/qe/v15/i2/p247
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