Jitter and dynamics of self-seeded Fabry-Perot laser diodes

Author

Schell, Martin ; Huhse, Dieter ; Utz, Wolfgang ; Kaessner, Jens ; Bimberg, Dieter ; Tarasov, I.S.

Author_Institution

Inst. fur Festkorperphys., Tech. Univ. Berlin, Germany

Volume

1

Issue

2

fYear

1995

fDate

6/1/1995 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

528

Lastpage

534

Abstract

We report an investigation of the time jitter and the switch-on dynamics of self-seeded gain-switched Fabry-Perot semiconductor lasers. Self-seeding leads to single-mode emission and is shown do reduce the turn-on delay time jitter to 210 fs, which is one order of magnitude lower than observed for gain-switched DFB-lasers. The number of round-trips necessary to reach the stable state after switch-on is determined using time resolved spectral measurements to be in the range of 5-10. The number of round-trips is 1-2 orders of magnitude shorter than for mode-locked lasers, thus opening the possibility of fast wavelength switching (i.e. over 5-10 bit periods). A theoretical model is in good agreement with all our results

Keywords

Fabry-Perot resonators; Q-switching; jitter; laser cavity resonators; laser modes; semiconductor lasers; 210 fs; fast wavelength switching; round-trips; self-seeded Fabry-Perot laser diodes; self-seeded gain-switched Fabry-Perot semiconductor lasers; single-mode emission; stable state; switch-on dynamics; time jitter; time resolved spectral measurements; turn-on delay time jitter; Diode lasers; Fabry-Perot; Jitter; Laser feedback; Laser mode locking; Laser stability; Laser tuning; Optical feedback; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1077-260X

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/2944.401238

Filename

401238