Double optical feedback system for a single-mode vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser

Kohei Doi; Takashi Sato; Masashi Ohkawa

doi:10.1117/1.3284784

1 January 2010 Double optical feedback system for a single-mode vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser

Kohei Doi, Takashi Sato, Masashi Ohkawa

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 49, Issue 1, 014202 (January 2010). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.3284784

Abstract

Ongoing tests involving the application of double optical feedback to a vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) are resulting in demonstrable and significant improvements in oscillation linewidth and frequency stability. We look into the workings of a double optical feedback system for a Fabry-Pérot-type diode laser. We describe a single-mode VCSEL that is characterized by a narrow oscillation linewidth and a stable output intensity that shows no trace of the low-frequency fluctuation (LFF) that so often occurs in single optical feedback diode lasers. Initial tests use a beat note to do this. From there, we calculate the square root of the Allan variance to determine the level of frequency stability. We also evaluate the degree of LFF suppression achieved using its spectrum density and compare those results with what we obtained through single and double optical feedback and with no feedback whatsoever.

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Kohei Doi, Takashi Sato, and Masashi Ohkawa "Double optical feedback system for a single-mode vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser," Optical Engineering 49(1), 014202 (1 January 2010). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.3284784

Published: 1 January 2010

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