Observation of slow light in the noise spectrum of a vertical external cavity surface-emitting laser

The role of coherent population oscillations is evidenced in the noise spectrum of an ultralow noise laser. This effect is isolated in the intensity noise spectrum of an optimized single-frequency vertical external cavity surface-emitting laser. The coherent population oscillations induced by the lasing mode manifest themselves through their associated dispersion that leads to slow light effects probed by the spontaneous emission present in the nonlasing side modes.     

Tunable dual-wavelength operation of an external cavity semiconductor laser

Tunable dual-wavelength operation of a laser diode has been achieved using a dual-period holographic element. The holographic element was positioned in Littrow configuration in an external cavity. The design of this holographic element was based on the superposition of a constant-period grating and a variable-period grating on the same location in a photoresist. We observed simultaneous emission at two wavelengths from a visible semiconductor laser operated with this holographic element. The spectral separation of the dual-wavelength output was varied from 0.76 to 6.27 nm by a simple translation of the holographic element.     

Switching of the polarization state of a vertical cavity surface-emitting laser using polarized feedback

We show that the light of a commercial vertical cavity surface-emitting laser with polarized optical feedback can be switched between two linear polarization eigenstates. The flip occurs when the feedback phase is scanned by either the external cavity length or the injection current.     

Modeling of vertical external cavity semiconductor laser with MQW resonant structure

Numerical model is developed for modeling pulsed operation of a vertical external cavity semiconductor laser (VECSEL) with a resonant gain structure. Properties of optical modes for compound resonator formed by Bragg reflector, chip boundary and external spherical mirror were studied. For above threshold operation carrier density in each of quantum wells (QW) obeys non-linear diffusion equation with a source supplied by electron-hole pairs generated in barrier layers by pump radiation or fast electron beam. A new iteration procedure for round-trip operator evaluation was developed, which provides linear growth of computation time with the number of QWs. Results of numerical simulations are reported for a VECSEL comprising 25 QW in resonant configuration and the output spherical mirror with curvature radius 3 cm. Variation of distance to the external mirror is found to result in notable changes in power and optical quality of the output beam. The decisive role of gain and index non-linearity in these changes is identified. A range of values of distance to external mirror is found where iterative procedure does not converge. In another range, the resulting solution depends on the initial conditions for the iteration procedure.     

外腔延时反馈半导体激光器混沌偏振可调控制方法研究

提出外腔延时反馈半导体激光器混沌偏振可调控制方法,分别建立了垂直正交偏振延时双反馈、同偏振面方向延时双反馈以及任意可调偏振延时双反馈激光动力学物理模型. 通过调节激光器外腔光路中的平面镜和光衰减器可控制一平面偏振反馈光的延时时间及光反馈量,或调节一偏振反馈光的偏振面到另一个偏振反馈光的偏振面方向上或者到任意偏振方向都可进行激光混沌控制. 数值结果证明该方法可以控制激光混沌到单周期态、多周期态等,还发现该控制可使激光器同时呈现偏振周期振荡、偏振反周期振荡、稳定三种动力学行为等. 关键词： 混沌 控制 激光器 偏振     

Single polarization, single transverse mode, and widely tunable narrow-linewidth laser from a multimode vertical cavity surface-emitting laser by use of a coupled cavity

A simple method for achieving a widely tunable narrow-linewidth, single polarization state and single transverse mode lasing oscillation from a commercially available multimode vertical cavity surface-emitting laser by use of a coupled cavity is reported. The laser has a wavelength tuning range of more than 5 nm along 850 nm, a side-mode suppression ratio of approximately 15 dB, and an output power of approximately 0.3 mW from a 50-microm multimode optical fiber at a bias current of 15 mA. The laser was operated in a single state of polarization lasing oscillation without any polarization switching.     

Mixed external cavity mode dynamics in a semiconductor laser

We observe experimentally and numerically novel mixed-mode dynamic states of a diode laser subject to two delayed optical feedbacks. These states have been proposed and analyzed within the framework of the Lang-Kobayashi single-feedback model. Such states are combinations of two distinct external cavity modes and can be identified through a characteristic sequence of a Hopf bifurcation followed by a secondary quasi-periodic bifurcation. We present experimental and numerical results that demonstrate such sequences.     

Power efficiency of a semiconductor laser with an external cavity

Optical feedback modifies the power vs. current diagram of a laser diode as well as its spectrum. Though optimization of the spectral characteristics is usually the main goal in the design of an external cavity source, power efficiency is also important, especially with relatively high power devices, where temperature variations due to dissipation can have an impact on the wavelength stability and on the laser lifetime. A useful parameter to describe the total power efficiency of the stabilized laser, relative to that of the solitary laser, is proposed in this paper. The dependence of this parameter on the characteristics of the active device, and of the external cavity, is investigated.     

Single-exposure two-dimensional superresolution in digital holography using a vertical cavity surface-emitting laser source array

We present a new implementation capable of producing two-dimensional (2D) superresolution (SR) imaging in a single exposure by aperture synthesis in digital lensless Fourier holography when using angular multiplexing provided by a vertical cavity surface-emitting laser source array. The system performs the recording in a single CCD snapshot of a multiplexed hologram coming from the incoherent addition of multiple subholograms, where each contains information about a different 2D spatial frequency band of the object's spectrum. Thus, a set of nonoverlapping bandpass images of the input object can be recovered by Fourier transformation (FT) of the multiplexed hologram. The SR is obtained by coherent addition of the information contained in each bandpass image while generating an enlarged synthetic aperture. Experimental results demonstrate improvement in resolution and image quality.     

Double-frequency external cavity laser with a singular optical semiconductor amplifier

Optical properties of an external cavity laser with a semiconductor optical amplifier and two diffraction gratings are described. The laser has been pigtailed and its emission showed two peaks in the output spectrum. The wavelength of the peaks, and in particular the spectral spacing between them, could be controlled by adjusting the reflecting elements in the system. The proposed double-frequency laser may be adopted as a signal source in terahertz generators.     

Mode self-locking conditions in a semiconductor injection laser with external cavity

The results of computer and analytical investigations of the temporal structure characteristics of dc-pumped injection lasers are presented, taking the refractive nonlinearity in GaAs optical semiconductors into account. Kinetic equations for the light field and inverse population of a laser diode that is optically conjugate to the external cavity are qualitatively analyzed. It is shown that mode self-locking can be achieved without additional modulators, using only the self-modulation effect due to the nonlinear active layer of the laser diode.Institute of Applied Optics, Belorussian Academy of Sciences, Mogilev. Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Radiofizika, Vol. 38, No. 11, pp. 1204–1212, November, 1995.     

高功率垂直外腔面发射半导体激光器增益设计及制备

垂直外腔面发射半导体激光器(vertical external cavity surface emitting laser, VECSEL)兼具高功率与良好的光束质量,是半导体激光器领域的持续研究热点之一.本文开展了光抽运VECSEL最核心的多量子阱增益区设计,对量子阱增益光谱及其峰值增益与载流子浓度及温度等关系进行系统的理论优化,并对5种不同势垒构型的量子阱增益特性进行对比,证实采用双侧GaAsP应变补偿的发光区具有更理想的增益特性.对MOCVD生长的VECSEL进行器件制备,实现了VECSEL在抽运功率为35 W时输出功率达到9.82 W,并且功率曲线仍然没有饱和;通过变化外腔镜的反射率, VECSEL的激光波长随抽运功率的漂移系数由0.216 nm/W降低至0.16 nm/W,证实外腔镜反射率会影响VECSEL增益芯片内部热效应,从而影响VECSEL激光输出功率.所制备VECSEL在两正交方向上的发散角分别为9.2°和9.0°,激光光斑呈现良好的圆形对称性.     

Slave-master dynamics of semiconductor laser with short external cavity

In this paper, the dynamical response of a slave semiconductor laser, with short cavity, under injection of a chaotic light from a master semiconductor laser has been widely studied. This is analyzed numerically via bifurcation diagrams, in terms of the phase and strength of the feedback, as control parameters. It is shown that, both of these parameters should be considered in the dynamical response of the slave laser. Our numerical calculations show that the dynamics of the slave laser imitates the master laser, in addition to the feedback strength, it also heavily depends on the injection dynamics and rates. Numerical results also show that for different values of the control parameters, the intensity of the slave laser output can be fully different from the injection source. However, we found out under appropriate conditions, that the dynamics of the slave can be the same as the master laser. The results also show that the output of the slave laser, compared to its output without injection, can be stabled in the appropriate values of the injection rate from the master laser.     

A self-seeded fiber laser incorporated with a fiber Bragg grating external cavity semiconductor laser

A self-seeded fiber laser incorporated with a fiber Bragg grating external cavity semiconductor laser (FBG-ECL) and a Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) were reported in this paper. The MZI provided a Q-switching with response time in the order of micro-seconds. The FBG-ECL provided narrow pulses as seeds to shorten the Q-switched pulses. Experimentally, pulse width of 0.8 μs was measured, which was one fifth of the pulse width without self-seeding.     

外腔半导体激光器随机数熵源的腔长分析

利用光反馈半导体激光器产生的混沌激光作为随机数熵源,详细研究了混沌源外腔长度对500Mbit/s随机数特性的影响.研究表明:在单路混沌源情况下,外腔反馈引起的谐振会使产生的随机序列具有弱周期性,且当外腔反馈时间与采样时间的比值为整数时,产生序列的随机性最差,仅能通过NIST统计测试2,3项;在两路混沌源情况下,当混沌源的外腔长不相等且不成比例时,通过两路异或处理可消除由外腔反馈引起的弱周期性,产生的随机序列能够通过NIST的全部统计测试项.     

Modelocked quantum dot vertical external cavity surface emitting laser

We report the first successful modelocking of a vertical external cavity surface emitting laser (VECSEL) with a quantum dot (QD) gain region. The VECSEL has a total of 35 QD-layers with an emission wavelength of about 1060 nm. In SESAM modelocked operation, we obtain an average output power of 27.4 mW with 18-ps pulses at a repetition rate of 2.57 GHz. This QD-VECSEL is used as-grown on a 450 μm thick substrate, which limits the average output power.     

Intracavity frequency-doubled green vertical external cavity surface emitting laser

An intracavity frequency-doubled vertical external cavity surface emitting laser (VECSEL) with green light is demonstrated. The fundamental frequency laser cavity consists of a distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) of the gain chip and an external mirror. A 12-mW frequency-doubled output has been reached at 540 nm with a nonlinear crystal LBO when the fundamental frequency output is 44 mW at 1080 nm. The frequency doubling efficiency is about 30%.     

外腔反馈对半导体激光器振荡特性的影响

通过有效反射系数的引入，根据激光谐振腔的自再现条件和对腔内光子密度、载流子密度方程的求解，分析了外腔反馈对半导体激光器的阈值增益、振荡频率和输出功率等振荡特性的影响，并通过实验进行了验证.外腔反馈后，半导体激光器的阈值电流从420mA降为370mA，输出功率的斜率效率获得了提高，理论计算的输出功率曲线与实验结果符合的很好. 关键词： 半导体激光器 外腔反馈 振荡特性