Title :
Dynamics of semiconductor lasers under fast intracavity frequency sweeping
Author :
Avrutin, Eugene ; Zhang, Lixiong
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron., Univ. of York, York, UK
Abstract :
Fast intracavity tunable semiconductor lasers find their use in information acquisition systems (e.g. OCT) and may be of use in agile multiwavelength communications systems. We present numerical analysis of the dynamic behaviour of a semiconductor laser frequency swept by means of an ultrafast intracavity filter. The interrelated roles of the tuning speed, the filter bandwidth, the cavity length, and the self-phase modulation in laser dynamics are analysed.
Keywords :
high-speed optical techniques; laser cavity resonators; laser tuning; numerical analysis; optical filters; self-phase modulation; semiconductor lasers; agile multiwavelength communications; cavity length; fast intracavity frequency sweeping; filter bandwidth; information acquisition systems; laser dynamics; numerical analysis; self-phase modulation; tunable semiconductor lasers; ultrafast intracavity filter; Digital filters; Laser mode locking; Laser tuning; Optical filters; Resonator filters; Optical Coherence Tomography; external cavity lasers; frequency sweeping;
Conference_Titel :
Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2012 14th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Coventry
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-2228-7
Electronic_ISBN :
2161-2056
DOI :
10.1109/ICTON.2012.6254428
