Title :
Injection locking dynamics of vertical cavity semiconductor lasers under conventional and phase conjugate injection
Author :
Li, Hua ; Lucas, Tim L. ; McInerney, John G. ; Wright, Malcolm W. ; Morgan, Robert A.
Author_Institution :
Center for High Technol. Mater., New Mexico Univ., Albuquerque, NM, USA
fDate :
2/1/1996 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
Stable phase locking of an electrically pumped vertical cavity surface-emitting semiconductor laser (VCSEL) was demonstrated experimentally by injecting light from an edge-emitting master laser into the slave laser VCSEL cavity within a large detuning range (~80 GHz). By varying the injected power and frequency detuning, a variety of interesting nonlinear behavior was observed. A theoretical model based on two-field rate equations is presented and compared with experiment, showing good agreement
Keywords :
laser cavity resonators; laser mode locking; laser stability; laser theory; laser tuning; optical phase conjugation; semiconductor device models; surface emitting lasers; edge-emitting master laser; electrically pumped vertical cavity surface-emitting semiconductor laser; frequency detuning; injected power; injecting light; injection locking dynamics; large detuning range; nonlinear behavior; phase conjugate injection; slave laser VCSEL cavity; stable phase locking; theoretical model; two-field rate equations; vertical cavity semiconductor lasers; Injection-locked oscillators; Laser excitation; Laser mode locking; Laser stability; Laser theory; Master-slave; Pump lasers; Semiconductor lasers; Surface emitting lasers; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers;
Journal_Title :
Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of
