Title :
Linewidth and feedback sensitivity of semiconductor diode lasers
Author :
Nilsson, Olle ; Buus, Jens
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Microwave Eng., R. Inst. of Technol., Stockholm, Sweden
fDate :
12/1/1990 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
It is shown that the feedback sensitivity of a diode laser is closely related to the free-running laser linewidth and that several formally different expressions in the literature for the linewidth with and without the explicit use of K factors are indeed essentially equivalent
Keywords :
feedback; laser theory; semiconductor junction lasers; sensitivity; spectral line breadth; K factors; feedback sensitivity; free-running laser linewidth; semiconductor diode lasers; Chromium; Delay; Diode lasers; Distributed feedback devices; Laser feedback; Laser transitions; Optical feedback; Optical losses; Semiconductor diodes; Semiconductor lasers;
Journal_Title :
Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of
