Mode-Locking in Semiconductor Fabry-Pérot Lasers

Author

Javaloyes, Julien ; Balle, Salvador

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Electr. Eng., Univ. of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK

Volume

46

Issue

7

fYear

2010

fDate

7/1/2010 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1023

Lastpage

1030

Abstract

We theoretically study the dynamics and the mode-locking properties of semiconductor Fabry-Perot lasers with intracavity saturable absorber by using a travelling-wave model and a time-domain description of the optical response of the semiconductor materials. Our description enables us to incorporate important features as for instance the abrupt spectral variations of the absorption in the saturable absorber. We analyze the influence of several key parameters that affect the stability of the mode-locking regime and show that this modelling approach can be used, upon proper fitting of the material parameters, for optimization of the design of semiconductor mode-locked lasers.

Keywords

laser mode locking; semiconductor lasers; intracavity saturable absorber; mode-locking; optical response; semiconductor Fabry-Perot lasers; semiconductor materials; semiconductor mode-locked lasers; travelling-wave model; Absorption; Design optimization; Laser mode locking; Laser stability; Laser theory; Optical materials; Semiconductor lasers; Semiconductor materials; Stability analysis; Time domain analysis; Mode locked lasers; saturable absorber; semiconductor lasers; travelling-wave modelling;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9197

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JQE.2010.2042792

Filename

5440029