Tunable light source using a liquid-crystal Fabry-Perot interferometer

Author

Tsuda, Hiroyuki ; Hirabayashi, Katsuhiko ; Tohmori, Yuichi ; Kurokawa, Takashi

Author_Institution

NTT Opto-Electron. Lab., Kanagawa, Japan

Volume

3

Issue

6

fYear

1991

fDate

6/1/1991 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

504

Lastpage

506

Abstract

A tunable light source with a liquid-crystal Fabry-Perot interferometer (LC-FPI) tuning element that emits a laser beam with a tuning range of 41 nm has been constructed. Incorporating a multiple quantum well (MQW) laser diode with a phase control (PC) section enables the selection of almost all external modes. Stable single-mode emission is obtained for the region, except where the slope of the lasing wavelength versus applied voltage to the liquid crystal is quite large.<>

Keywords

laser cavity resonators; laser modes; laser tuning; light interferometers; liquid crystal devices; semiconductor junction lasers; semiconductor quantum wells; external modes; laser beam; lasing wavelength; liquid crystal Fabry-Perot interferometer tuning element; multiple quantum well laser diode; phase control section; stable single mode emission; tunable light source; tuning range; Diode lasers; Fabry-Perot interferometers; Laser beams; Laser modes; Laser tuning; Light sources; Phase control; Quantum well devices; Quantum well lasers; Tunable circuits and devices;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.91015

Filename

91015