Phase correlation between longitudinal modes in semiconductor self-pulsating DBR lasers

Renaudier, J.; Duan, Guang‐Hua; Provost, J.-G.; Debregeas-Sillard, H.; Gallion, P.

doi:10.1109/lpt.2005.843977

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“…Very recently evidence for passive mode-locking in DBR lasers has been published [16]. Other reports of SP in DBR lasers have attributed the origin of the SP to four-wave mixing [17], [18].…”

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confidence: 98%

Self-Pulsation Dynamics in Narrow Stripe Semiconductor Lasers

Landais¹,

Lynch²,

O’Gorman³

et al. 2006

IEEE J. Quantum Electron.

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Abstract-In this paper, we address the physical origin of self-pulsation in narrow stripe edge emitting semiconductor lasers. We present both experimental time-averaged polarization-resolved near-field measurements performed with a charged-coupled device camera and picosecond time resolved near-field measurements performed with a streak camera. These results demonstrate dynamic spatial-hole burning during pulse formation and evolution. We conclude from these experimental results that the dominant process which drives the self-pulsation in this type of laser diode is carrier induced effective refractive index change induced by the spatial-hole burning.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 98%

Self-Pulsation Dynamics in Narrow Stripe Semiconductor Lasers

Landais¹,

Lynch²,

O’Gorman³

et al. 2006

IEEE J. Quantum Electron.

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“…The possibility of regular, slightly anharmonic oscillations with FSF was noticed [77]. Four wave mixing mediated by phase-amplitude coupling will also contribute to phase locking as noted before for semiconductor lasers without a saturable absorber section [80,81], soliton formation in dielectric microcavities [82], and dissipative parametric instabilities [83]. Mechanisms limiting the pulse width are gain dispersion due to the filter bandwidth and the group velocity dispersion introduced by the narrow VCSEL resonance.…”

Section: Prl 118 044102 (2017) P H Y S I C a L R E V I E W L E T T Ementioning

confidence: 70%

Observation of mode-locked spatial laser solitons

Gustave¹,

Radwell²,

Toomey³

et al. 2017

2017 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe &Amp; European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO/Europe-EQEC)

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A stable nonlinear wave packet, self-localized in all three dimensions, is an intriguing and much sought after object in nonlinear science in general and in nonlinear photonics in particular. We report on the experimental observation of mode-locked spatial laser solitons in a vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser with frequency-selective feedback from an external cavity. These spontaneously emerging and long-term stable spatiotemporal structures have a pulse length shorter than the cavity round-trip time and may pave the way to completely independent cavity light bullets. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.044102 Wave packets in general, and light wave packets in particular, do not remain confined to small regions in space or time, but have the natural tendency to broaden. In space this is due to diffraction and in time this is due to dispersion, at least in a medium. Although localization can be achieved by confining potentials (e.g., optical fibers and photonic crystals in optics), it was always the vision of researchers to obtain confinement by self-action. This is why the concept of solitary waves, or, more loosely speaking, of solitons, received a lot of attention over the last decades. A soliton is a wave packet in which the tendency to broaden is balanced by nonlinearities. Spatial and temporal solitons in one or two dimensions are known in many fields of science [1][2][3][4][5][6][7]. There was also early interest in three-dimensional (3D) self-localization, not least as a model for elementary particles [8]. However, early results [8] were discouraging as they indicated that stationary 3D localized states are not stable in a broad class of nonlinear wave equations. Significant interest continued in the theoretical and mathematical literature (e.g., Refs. [9][10][11][12][13][14][15]), but to our knowledge there is only evidence for 3D self-organized periodic patterns [16], but not for 3D self-localization.In optics, spatiotemporal localization of light, i.e., a "bullet" of light being confined in all three spatial dimensions (and time, because it is propagating), was considered as early as 1990 in the framework of a 3D nonlinear Schrödinger equation (NLSE) [17], but realized to be unstable due to the well-known blow-up experienced for cubic nonlinearities in more than one dimension [18,19]. There were several proposals of how to stabilize multidimensional solitons [19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28]. Spatiotemporal compression [29][30][31], metastable 2D spatiotemporal solitons [24,32], and metastable discrete light bullets [33,34] were observed in pioneering experiments, the latter constituting the closest realization of a stable light bullet up until now. However, these quasiconservative bullets are only stable over a few characteristic lengths and are long-term unstable due to losses and Raman shifts.This makes it attractive to look for solitons in dissipative optical systems in which losses are compensated by driving [5]. Indeed solitons can exist in two dimensions with a cubic nonlinearity within ...

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“…the lasing modes, obtain the optical gain from the entire cavity structure and prevent dual-mode operation from the SOA-DML [15]. A clear four-wave mixing (FWM) signal indicates the strong phase correlation between two-lasing modes by carrier density pulsation [19]. Although the FWM signals are amplified in the SOA section, the DML without the SOA section already shows a strong FWM signal [17].…”

Section: Semiconductor Optical Amplifier Integrated Dual-mode Lasermentioning

confidence: 99%

Portable terahertz scanner for imaging and spectroscopy using InP-related devices

et al. 2015

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Our recent studies in regards of developing portable THz scanner for imaging and spectroscopy systems are presented. In the course, high power tunable continuous wave (CW) THz emitter and high sensitivity THz receiver platforms are presented. Those platforms can be realized with tunable optical beating source, broadband photomixer, arrayed photomixer and Schottky barrier diode, evanescently-coupled photodiodes with high saturation current, and semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) integrated optical beating source. On the system level, our recent THz thickness measurement systems and the THz line scanner imaging system are presented.

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Phase correlation between longitudinal modes in semiconductor self-pulsating DBR lasers

Cited by 33 publications

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Self-Pulsation Dynamics in Narrow Stripe Semiconductor Lasers

Self-Pulsation Dynamics in Narrow Stripe Semiconductor Lasers

Observation of mode-locked spatial laser solitons

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