Optoelectronic mixing using a short cavity distributed Bragg reflector laser

Author

Lasri, J. ; Shtaif, M. ; Eisenstein, G.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Technion-Israel Inst. of Technol., Haifa, Israel

Volume

2

fYear

1998

fDate

18-20 May 1998

Firstpage

1414

Abstract

We describe optoelectronic mixing in a short cavity distributed Bragg reflector laser operating near 1550 nm. Up and down conversion are demonstrated both theoretically and experimentally for three drive configurations. Absolute efficiencies as well as their frequency dependencies are described and the advantage of direct modulation of the photon field (by loss modulation) is clearly seen. Down conversion is shown to be less efficient than up conversion but its efficiency decrease with an increasing frequency is slower

Keywords

distributed Bragg reflector lasers; electro-optical modulation; infrared sources; laser cavity resonators; laser transitions; semiconductor lasers; 1550 nm; direct modulation; drive configurations; frequency dependencies; loss modulation; optoelectronic mixing; photon field; short cavity distributed Bragg reflector laser; up conversion; Distributed Bragg reflectors; Frequency conversion; Laser modes; Laser theory; Optical frequency conversion; Optical losses; Optical mixing; Optical modulation; Optical reflection; Optical refraction;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrotechnical Conference, 1998. MELECON 98., 9th Mediterranean

Conference_Location

Tel-Aviv

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3879-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MELCON.1998.699470

Filename

699470