An optically triggered oscillator based on wave coupling in a semiconductor optical amplifier

Author

Shtaif, Mark ; Horowitz, Mark ; Nagar, Reetika ; Eisenstein, Gadi

Author_Institution

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

Volume

30

Issue

9

fYear

1994

fDate

9/1/1994 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

2188

Lastpage

2193

Abstract

We describe the principles of operation and demonstrate experimentally an optically triggered and controlled oscillator based on wave-coupling-induced feedback in a semiconductor optical amplifier. The generated signal has the combined properties of a laser diode and a parametric oscillator. It has a well-defined frequency relative to that of the pump beam, which can be controlled by the pump power. The oscillator may be the basis for optical phase-locked loops and serve as the optical analog of a microwave voltage-controlled oscillator

Keywords

optical parametric oscillators; semiconductor lasers; feedback; laser diode; optical phase-locked loops; optical voltage-controlled oscillator; optically triggered oscillator; parametric oscillator; semiconductor optical amplifier; wave coupling; Laser feedback; Microwave oscillators; Nonlinear optics; Optical control; Optical coupling; Optical feedback; Optical pumping; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission; Voltage-controlled oscillators;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9197

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/3.309882

Filename

309882