Single-mode operation from an external cavity controlled vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser

Author

Giudice, G.E. ; Kuksenkov, D.V. ; De Peralta, L. Grave ; Temkin, H.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Texas Tech. Univ., Lubbock, TX, USA

Volume

11

Issue

12

fYear

1999

Firstpage

1545

Lastpage

1547

Abstract

Single-mode operation from an index-guided vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) has been achieved by using a fiber Bragg grating (FBG) as an external selective wavelength reflector. The spectral characteristics of the external cavity controlled VCSEL under static and dynamic conditions have been studied. The FBG provided stable single mode operation under pseudorandom modulation with a sidemode suppression ratio of /spl sim/30 dB from 500 Mb/s up to 4 Gb/s at room temperature.

Keywords

Bragg gratings; laser cavity resonators; laser feedback; laser modes; optical modulation; surface emitting lasers; 500 Mbit/s to 4 Gbit/s; dynamic conditions; external cavity controlled VCSEL; external selective wavelength reflector; fiber Bragg grating; index-guided vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser; pseudorandom modulation; room temperature; sidemode suppression ratio; single-mode operation; spectral characteristics; static conditions; Bragg gratings; Fiber gratings; Fiber lasers; Laser feedback; Laser modes; Optical control; Optical feedback; Optical surface waves; Surface emitting lasers; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.806841

Filename

806841