Title :
Feedback tolerance of injection-locked VCSELs
Author :
Pesala, Bala ; Chrostowski, Lukas ; Zhao, Wendy ; Chang-Hasnain, Connie
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., California Univ., Berkeley, CA, USA
Abstract :
We demonstrate that injection locking of VCSELs improves the tolerance to optical feedback. Laser relative intensity noise characterization shows that the critical feedback level is increased with increasing injection ratio.
Keywords :
laser cavity resonators; laser feedback; laser noise; semiconductor lasers; surface emitting lasers; injection ratio; injection-locked VCSEL; laser feedback tolerance; laser relative intensity noise characterization; vertical cavity surface emitting lasers; Injection-locked oscillators; Laser feedback; Laser noise; Noise level; Optical attenuators; Optical feedback; Optical noise; Optical sensors; Surface emitting lasers; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2005. (CLEO). Conference on
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-795-4
DOI :
10.1109/CLEO.2005.202182
