Instabilities in a grating feedback external cavity semiconductor laser

doi:10.1364/OE.16.017014

Instabilities in a grating feedback external cavity semiconductor laser

Dijun Chen, Zujie Fang, Haiwen Cai, Jianxin Geng, and Ronghui Qu »View Author Affiliations

Optics Express, Vol. 16, Issue 21, pp. 17014-17020 (2008)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.16.017014

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Abstract

Output power fluctuations in a grating external cavity diode laser with Littman configuration are described, showing peculiar chaotic behaviors of self-pulsation at the L-I curve kink points. Different spectral characteristics with multiple peaks are observed at upper and lower state of the self-pulsation. It is found also that P-N junction voltage jumps in a same pace with the pulsation. The observed phenomena reflect competition between different longitudinal modes, and transient variation of transverse modes in addition. These experimental results may contain information about the mechanisms of the chaotic instability in strong filtered feedback semiconductor lasers.

OCIS Codes
(140.2020) Lasers and laser optics : Diode lasers
(270.2500) Quantum optics : Fluctuations, relaxations, and noise
(270.3100) Quantum optics : Instabilities and chaos

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Lasers and Laser Optics

History
Original Manuscript: July 18, 2008
Revised Manuscript: September 5, 2008
Manuscript Accepted: September 15, 2008
Published: October 10, 2008

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Dijun Chen, Zujie Fang, Haiwen Cai, Jianxin Geng, and Ronghui Qu, "Instabilities in a grating feedback external cavity semiconductor laser," Opt. Express 16, 17014-17020 (2008)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-16-21-17014

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IEEE J. Quantum Electron.

R. Lang and K. Kobayashi, "External Optical Feedback Effects on Semiconductor Injection Laser Properties," IEEE J. Quantum Electron. 16, 347-355 (1980). [CrossRef]
D. Lenstra, B. Verbeek, and A. den Boef, "Coherence collapse in single-mode semiconductor lasers due to optical feedback," IEEE J. Quantum Electron. 21, 674-679 (1985). [CrossRef]
J. Mørk, B. Tromborg, and J. Mark, "Chaos in semiconductor lasers with optical feedback: Theory and experiment," IEEE J. Quantum Electron. 28, 93-108 (1992). [CrossRef]
T. Paoli, "Nonlinearities in the emission characteristics of stripe-geometry (AlGa)As double- heterostructure junction lasers," IEEE J. Quantum Electron. 12, 770-776 (1976). [CrossRef]
T. Zachos and J. Ripper, "Resonant Modes of GaAs Junction Lasers," IEEE J. Quantum Electron. 5, 29-37 (1969). [CrossRef]
Y. Mitsuhashi, J. Shimada, and S. Mitsutsuka, "Voltage change across the self-coupled semiconductor laser," IEEE J. Quantum Electron. 17, 1216-1225 (1981). [CrossRef]

J. Appl. Phys.

N. Chinone, "Nonlinearity in power-output-current characteristics of stripe-geometry injection lasers," J. Appl. Phys. 48, 3237-3243 (1977). [CrossRef]

J. Lightwave Technol.

R. Tkach and A. Chraplyvy, "Regimes of feedback effects in 1.5-um distributed feedback lasers," J. Lightwave Technol. 4, 1655-1661 (1986). [CrossRef]

Opt. Lett.

Phys. Rev. Lett.

A. Hohl and A. Gavrielides, "Bifurcation Cascade in a Semiconductor Laser Subject to Optical Feedback," Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 1148-1151 (1999). [CrossRef]

Proc. SPIE

E. Detoma, B. Tromborg, and I. Montrosset, "Frequency and time domain analysis of an external cavity laser with strong filtered optical feedback," Proc. SPIE 5452, 283-290 (2004). [CrossRef]

Proc.SPIE

J. Mørk, B. Tromborg, J. Mark, and V. Velichansky, "Instabilities in a laser diode with strong optical feedback," Proc.SPIE 1837, 90-104 (1992). [CrossRef]

Other

K. Green and B. Krauskopf, "Bifurcation analysis of a multi-transverse-mode VCSEL," Proc. SPIE 6997, 69970O1-9 (2008).
H. Kressel and J. Butler, Semiconductor lasers and hetero-junction LEDs (Academic Press, 1977), Chapter 5, p. 172.

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