Regimes of operations of semiconductor ring lasers under optical injection and applications to optical signal processing

Author

Calabretta, N. ; Beri, S. ; Notzel, R. ; Bente, E.A.J.M. ; Danckaert, J. ; Smit, M.K. ; Dorren, H.J.S.

Author_Institution

COBRA Res. Inst., Eindhoven Univ. of Technol., Eindhoven

fYear

2008

fDate

4-9 May 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

We present a detailed characterization of the semiconductor ring-laser operating regimes with special emphasis on the response to optical injection. Applications to an optical set/reset bistable memory and four-wave-mixing tunable THz signals generation are demonstrated.

Keywords

laser beams; laser cavity resonators; laser tuning; multiwave mixing; optical bistability; optical information processing; optical storage; ring lasers; semiconductor lasers; submillimetre wave generation; four-wave-mixing tunable THz signals generation; laser beam characterization; optical injection; optical reset bistable memory; optical set bistable memory; optical signal processing; semiconductor ring-laser operating regimes; Nonlinear optics; Optical bistability; Optical feedback; Optical packet switching; Optical pumping; Optical refraction; Optical signal processing; Optical variables control; Ring lasers; Semiconductor lasers; (070.4340) Nonlinear optical signal processing; (140.5960) Semiconductor lasers; (190.1450) Bistability;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

iet

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2008 and 2008 Conference on Quantum Electronics and Laser Science. CLEO/QELS 2008. Conference on

Conference_Location

San Jose, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-55752-859-9

Type

conf

Filename

4572133