Dynamics of semiconductor lasers under fast intracavity frequency sweeping

Author

Avrutin, Eugene ; Zhang, Lixiong

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron., Univ. of York, York, UK

fYear

2012

fDate

2-5 July 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2012 14th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Coventry

ISSN

2161-2056

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2228-7

Electronic_ISBN

2161-2056

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2012.6254428

Filename

6254428