Relative intensity noise of multitransverse mode vertical cavity surface emitting lasers

Author

Valle, A. ; Pesquera, L.

Author_Institution

Inst. de Fisica de Cantabria, CSIC-UC, Santander, Spain

fYear

1999

fDate

28-28 May 1999

Firstpage

175

Lastpage

176

Abstract

Summary form only given. Relative intensity noise (RIN) in vertical cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSELs) is important for applications in communications and optical interconnections. It is known that VCSELs tend to lase at high powers in multiple transverse modes due to spatial hole burning (SHE). This behavior can increase the RIN and limit the usefulness of VCSELs in high-speed communications. In the paper it is found that low RIN operation can be maintained for low spatially overlapping modes.

Keywords

laser beams; laser cavity resonators; laser modes; laser noise; optical hole burning; semiconductor lasers; surface emitting lasers; waveguide lasers; RIN; communications; high-speed communications; low RIN operation; multiple transverse modes; multitransverse mode vertical cavity surface emitting lasers; optical interconnections; relative intensity noise; spatial hole burning; spatially overlapping modes; Frequency; Laser feedback; Laser mode locking; Laser modes; Laser noise; Optical feedback; Semiconductor device noise; Surface emitting lasers; Timing jitter; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 1999. CLEO '99. Summaries of Papers Presented at the Conference on

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-595-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.1999.834048

Filename

834048