The linewidth of a mode-locked semiconductor laser caused by spontaneous emission: experimental comparison to single-mode operation

D Rush, G Burdge, PT Ho - IEEE journal of quantum electronics, 1986 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We experimentally compare the linewidth of the individual modes of an extended cavity
semiconductor laser when it operates mode locked and when it operates single mode. We …

Injection locking of an actively mode-locked semiconductor laser

M Margalit, M Orenstein, G Eisenstein, V Mikhaelshvili - Optics letters, 1994 - opg.optica.org
We report what is to our knowledge the first observation of synchronous coherent injection
locking of an actively mode-locked extended cavity semiconductor laser to an external light …

Contribution of spontaneous emission to the linewidth of an injection-locked semiconductor laser

P Gallion, H Nakajima, G Debarge, C Chabran - Electronics letters, 1985 - infona.pl
We show that the spontaneous emission inside an injection-locked semiconductor laser
does not alter the lasing field. For injection at the free-running frequency, the linewidth is …

Noise reduction in a mode-locked semiconductor laser by coherent photon seeding

P Langlois, D Gay, N McCarthy, M Piché - Optics letters, 1998 - opg.optica.org
We have used coherent photon seeding to reduce the noise in an actively mode-locked
extended-cavity semiconductor laser. Feedback is provided by an auxiliary cavity terminated …

Experimental observations of multi-mode dynamics in an external cavity semiconductor laser

I Wallace, D Yu, RG Harrison… - Journal of Optics B …, 2000 - iopscience.iop.org
We present experimental results of the dynamics in a semiconductor laser operating on
several longitudinal modes subject to external feedback. Both low-frequency fluctuations …

Stability of injection-locked CW-emitting external-cavity semiconductor lasers

M Nizette, T Erneux - IEEE journal of selected topics in quantum …, 2004 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We analyze the stability of phase-locked emission modes of a semiconductor laser subject
to both optical feedback and continuous-wave optical injection. We consider a large external …

Frequency multiplication in actively mode‐locked semiconductor lasers

N Onodera, AJ Lowery, L Zhai, Z Ahmed… - Applied physics …, 1993 - pubs.aip.org
We report a method that enables an external‐cavity semiconductor laser to be actively mode
locked at multiples of the radio frequency (rf) drive frequency. The key to this method is the …

A passively mode-locked external-cavity semiconductor laser emitting 60-fs pulses

AH Quarterman, KG Wilcox, V Apostolopoulos… - Nature …, 2009 - nature.com
Optical pulses with durations of a few tens of femtoseconds are used to drive applications
ranging from attoscience to metrology, but femtosecond lasers remain bulky and expensive …

Analysis of the fast recovery dynamics of a semiconductor laser with feedback in the low-frequency fluctuation regime

SP Hegarty, G Huyet, P Porta, JG McInerney - Optics letters, 1998 - opg.optica.org
We experimentally investigate the temporal evolution of the power of an external cavity
semiconductor laser in the low-frequency fluctuation regime with subnanosecond resolution …

Low-frequency fluctuations in external cavity semiconductor lasers: understanding based on a simple dynamical model

A Prasad, YC Lai, A Gavrielides… - Journal of Optics B …, 2001 - iopscience.iop.org
We investigate the dynamical origin of low-frequency fluctuations (LFFs) in external cavity
semiconductor lasers by utilizing a simplified, three-dimensional model derived from the …