Title : 
Experimental demonstration of very low noise class-A operation of a monomode semiconductor fibre based ring laser
         
        
            Author : 
Baili, Ghaya ; Alouini, Mehdi ; Moronvalle, Chantal ; Dolfi, Daniel ; Bretenaker, Fabien
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Thales Res. & Technol., Orsay, France
         
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
We propose a new approach based on the control of the dynamics of a semiconductor laser by adjusting the lifetime of the photons in the cavity. Indeed, when this lifetime gets longer than the carrier lifetime, the laser becomes a so-called class-A laser in which the relaxation behaviour is overdamped.
         
        
            Keywords : 
carrier lifetime; laser cavity resonators; optical fibres; ring lasers; semiconductor lasers; carrier lifetime; class-A laser operation; monomode semiconductor fibre; relaxation behaviour; ring laser; semiconductor laser; Bandwidth; Fiber lasers; Frequency; Laser noise; Noise level; Optical noise; Pump lasers; Ring lasers; Semiconductor device noise; Semiconductor lasers;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe, 2005. CLEO/Europe. 2005 Conference on
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
0-7803-8974-3
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/CLEOE.2005.1567912