Injection-induced modulation of laser light by the interaction of laser diodes

Author

Nishizawa, Jun-ichi ; Ishida, Katsuhiko

Author_Institution

Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

Volume

11

Issue

7

fYear

1975

fDate

7/1/1975 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

515

Lastpage

519

Abstract

The experimental investigation of laser-light modulation by injecting laser light of a frequency, which is slightly different from the cavity resonant frequency, into a laser-diode cavity is reported. For this investigation, the interaction of two laser diodes was used and the relation between the oscillation frequency spectra and the lasing frequency difference of the two diodes was measured where the frequency difference was greater than the locking frequency range. The sidebands generated by the injection of laser light were measured to judge an appearance of the injection-induced modulation of light intensity. Modulation in the frequencies from 10 to 90 GHz was achieved by using laser diodes of $60-130-\\mu$ m length. It was experimentally shown that the upper frequency limit of the injection-induced modulation was related to the $Q$ value of the laser-diode cavity.

Keywords

Bandwidth; Diode lasers; Frequency modulation; High speed optical techniques; Intensity modulation; Laser mode locking; Optical coupling; Optical modulation; Semiconductor diodes; Semiconductor lasers;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9197

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JQE.1975.1068656

Filename

1068656