Injection locking dynamics of vertical cavity semiconductor lasers under conventional and phase conjugate injection

Author

Li, Hua ; Lucas, Tim L. ; McInerney, John G. ; Wright, Malcolm W. ; Morgan, Robert A.

Author_Institution

Center for High Technol. Mater., New Mexico Univ., Albuquerque, NM, USA

Volume

32

Issue

2

fYear

1996

fDate

2/1/1996 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

227

Lastpage

235

Abstract

Stable phase locking of an electrically pumped vertical cavity surface-emitting semiconductor laser (VCSEL) was demonstrated experimentally by injecting light from an edge-emitting master laser into the slave laser VCSEL cavity within a large detuning range (~80 GHz). By varying the injected power and frequency detuning, a variety of interesting nonlinear behavior was observed. A theoretical model based on two-field rate equations is presented and compared with experiment, showing good agreement

Keywords

laser cavity resonators; laser mode locking; laser stability; laser theory; laser tuning; optical phase conjugation; semiconductor device models; surface emitting lasers; edge-emitting master laser; electrically pumped vertical cavity surface-emitting semiconductor laser; frequency detuning; injected power; injecting light; injection locking dynamics; large detuning range; nonlinear behavior; phase conjugate injection; slave laser VCSEL cavity; stable phase locking; theoretical model; two-field rate equations; vertical cavity semiconductor lasers; Injection-locked oscillators; Laser excitation; Laser mode locking; Laser stability; Laser theory; Master-slave; Pump lasers; Semiconductor lasers; Surface emitting lasers; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9197

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/3.481870

Filename

481870