The full characterization of Fabry-Pérot lasers using the Fourier series expansion method

Author

Guo, Wei-Hua ; Byrne, Diarmuid C. ; Lu, Qiaoyin ; Corbett, Brian ; Donegan, John F.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Phys., Trinity Coll. Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

fYear

2011

fDate

26-30 June 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

The characterization of the performance of Fabry-Pérot lasers based on measurements of the amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) spectrum and analysis using the Fourier series expansion method is presented in this paper. We explain how all the parameters of net modal gain, internal loss, quasi-Fermi level separation, linewidth enhancement factor, injection efficiency, and geometric spontaneous emission factor, can be obtained providing a unique method of extracting a large number of parameters from one simple measurement.

Keywords

Fermi level; Fourier series; semiconductor lasers; superradiance; Fabry-Perot lasers; Fourier series expansion method; amplified spontaneous emission; geometric spontaneous emission factor; injection efficiency; internal loss; linewidth enhancement factor; net modal gain; quasiFermi level separation; Cavity resonators; Current measurement; Loss measurement; Measurement by laser beam; Semiconductor lasers; Spontaneous emission; Wavelength measurement; Fabry-Pérot laser; amplified spontaneous emission; injection efficiency; internal loss; linewidth enhancement factor; modal gain; spontaneous emission factor;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2011 13th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Stockholm

ISSN

2161-2056

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0881-7

Electronic_ISBN

2161-2056

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2011.5970826

Filename

5970826