| Abstract: | 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. |
