Experimental stability diagram of a diode laser subject to strongly filtered phase-conjugate feedback

Author

Andersen, O.K. ; Fischer, A. ; Stolte, S. ; Lenstra, D.

Author_Institution

Fac. of Sci., Vrije Univ., Amsterdam, Netherlands

fYear

1999

fDate

28-28 May 1999

Firstpage

542

Lastpage

543

Abstract

Summary form only given. Semiconductor lasers are known to be extremely sensitive to any external optical perturbation, such as optical feedback or injection. Research efforts have been directed towards understanding the conditions for which the lasers are stable. The stability of the different types of dynamical behavior of a diode laser (DL) subject to phase-conjugate feedback (PCF) can be visualized using a stability diagram in the plane spanned by the amount of feedback and the frequency detuning /spl delta/=v/sub DL/-V/sub pump/ between DL frequency and the pump frequency of the phase-conjugate mirror (PCM).

Keywords

laser feedback; laser mirrors; laser stability; laser tuning; optical phase conjugation; optical pumping; semiconductor lasers; diode laser; dynamical behavior; experimental stability diagram; external optical perturbation; frequency detuning; optical feedback; optical pump frequency; phase-conjugate feedback; phase-conjugate mirror; semiconductor lasers; stability diagram; strongly filtered phase-conjugate feedback; Diode lasers; Frequency; Laser excitation; Laser feedback; Laser stability; Optical feedback; Optical pumping; Optical sensors; Semiconductor lasers; Ultraviolet sources;

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.1999.834569

Filename

834569