• DocumentCode
    1555138
  • Title

    Square ring laser diode with MMI coupler cavity

  • Author

    Kim, H.S. ; Kwon, Y.S. ; Hong, S.

  • Author_Institution
    Opto-electron. Res. Center, Korea Adv. Inst. of Sci. & Technol., Seoul, South Korea
  • Volume
    9
  • Issue
    5
  • fYear
    1997
  • fDate
    5/1/1997 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    584
  • Lastpage
    586
  • Abstract
    A square ring laser diode is designed and fabricated in which a multimode interference 3-dB coupler operates as an output coupler and a ring resonator simultaneously. This merged structure allows a shorter cavity length and a lower loss in the output branching. Lasing in the ring cavity is confirmed and the spectra are also measured.
  • Keywords
    laser cavity resonators; laser modes; light interference; optical couplers; optical losses; quantum well lasers; ring lasers; GaAs-AlGaAs; GaAs-AlGaAs three quantum well separate confinement heterostructure; MMI coupler cavity; lasing; lower loss; multimode interference 3-dB coupler; output branching; output coupler; ring cavity; ring resonator; shorter cavity length; spectra; square ring laser diode; Coupling circuits; Diode lasers; Laser feedback; Laser modes; Mirrors; Optical coupling; Optical waveguides; Ring lasers; Semiconductor lasers; Waveguide lasers;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1041-1135
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/68.588125
  • Filename
    588125