Phase-locked modulations of optically injected laser diodes

Athanasios Gavrielides; Vassilios Kovanis; Thomas Erneux; Michel Nizette

doi:10.1117/12.391470

14 July 2000 Phase-locked modulations of optically injected laser diodes

Athanasios Gavrielides, Vassilios Kovanis, Thomas Erneux, Michel Nizette

Proceedings Volume 3944, Physics and Simulation of Optoelectronic Devices VIII; (2000) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.391470
Event: Symposium on Integrated Optoelectronics, 2000, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

Recent experiments using lasers subject to strong external injection [Simpson, Opt. Commun. 170, 93 (1999)] have demonstrated that adding a small reference current modulation to the dc-bias current can easily lock the oscillation frequency of the laser to the reference frequency. Tunable, locked outputs from 9.5 to 13.1 GHz have been obtained. We explain why synchronization is readily achieved at high injection rates. We describe the locking phenomenon in detail and derive useful analytical expressions for the frequencies and locking range in terms of the laser parameters.

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Athanasios Gavrielides, Vassilios Kovanis, Thomas Erneux, and Michel Nizette "Phase-locked modulations of optically injected laser diodes", Proc. SPIE 3944, Physics and Simulation of Optoelectronic Devices VIII, (14 July 2000); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.391470

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