Effect of the nonlinear gain in the visibility of a semiconductor laser with incoherent feedback in the coherence collapsed regime

Author

Masoller, Cristina ; Cabeza, Cecilia ; Schifino, Anibal Sicardi

Author_Institution

Facultad de Ciencias, Inst. de Fisica, Montevideo, Uruguay

Volume

31

Issue

6

fYear

1995

fDate

6/1/1995 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1022

Lastpage

1028

Abstract

We study the influence of the gain saturation parameter ε on the visibility of a semiconductor laser subject to optical feedback in the coherence collapsed state. The experimental measurements are compared with the results obtained integrating the Lang and Kobayashi equations and a good agreement is found varying the amount of feedback and using different values of ε. The analysis reveals that there is a best value of ε that fits the experimental measurements and that, for this value of ε, the values of γ found are in the expected relation with the attenuation used experimentally

Keywords

laser feedback; optical saturation; semiconductor lasers; visibility; attenuation; coherence collapsed regime; gain saturation parameter; incoherent feedback; nonlinear gain; optical feedback; semiconductor laser; visibility; Equations; Laser feedback; Laser modes; Laser noise; Laser theory; Optical attenuators; Optical feedback; Semiconductor device noise; Semiconductor lasers; State feedback;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9197

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/3.387038

Filename

387038