Nonresonant self-injection seeding of a gain-switched diode laser

E U Rafailov; D J L Birkin; W Sibbett; E A Avrutin

doi:10.1109/2944.954141

Nonresonant self-injection seeding of a gain-switched diode laser

E U Rafailov, D J L Birkin, W Sibbett, E A Avrutin

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Abstract

We demonstrate step-tunable single-mode operation of a gain-switched diode laser by nonresonant self-injection seeding from an uncoated glass slide used as an external cavity reflector. A spectral bandwidth reduction from 11 mn to 0.05 nm and wavelength tunability has been achieved for picosecond (near-transform-limited) pulses with little effect on other laser characteristics. Good agreement with numerical simulations based on a compound-cavity laser model is also reported.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	287-292
Number of pages	6
Journal	IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics
Volume	7
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/2944.954141
Publication status	Published - 2001

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Keywords

gain-switching
laser diode
self-injection seeding
FABRY-PEROT LASER
PULSE GENERATION
CAVITY

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