Self-injection locking of a gain-switched laser diode

AE Shitikov, VE Lobanov, NM Kondratiev… - Physical Review …, 2021 - APS
We experimentally observe a self-injection locking regime of the gain-switched laser to a
high-Q optical microresonator. We reveal that the comb generated by the gain-switched …

Selective amplification of frequency comb modes via optical injection locking of a semiconductor laser: influence of adjacent unlocked comb modes

DS Wu, DJ Richardson, R Slavík - Integrated Optics: Physics …, 2013 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Optical injection locking can be used to isolate and amplify individual comb modes from an
optical frequency comb (OFC). However, it has been observed that for narrow spaced OFCs …

Harmonic frequency locking and tuning of comb frequency spacing through optical injection

K Shortiss, B Lingnau, F Dubois, B Kelleher… - Optics express, 2019 - opg.optica.org
We show, both experimentally and theoretically, that a slave laser injected with an optical
frequency comb can undergo two distinct locking mechanisms, both of which decrease the …

Octave spanning tunable frequency comb from a microresonator

P Del'Haye, T Herr, E Gavartin, ML Gorodetsky… - Physical Review Letters, 2011 - APS
We report the generation of an octave-spanning optical frequency comb in a continuous
wave laser pumped microresonator. The generated comb spectrum covers the wavelength …

Optical injection dynamics of frequency combs

Y Doumbia, T Malica, D Wolfersberger, K Panajotov… - Optics Letters, 2020 - opg.optica.org
We analyze the nonlinear dynamics of a semiconductor laser with optical injection from a
frequency comb. When varying both the injection parameters (detuning and injection ratio) …

Numerical investigation into the injection-locking phenomena of gain switched lasers for optical frequency comb generation

SP Ó Dúill, PM Anandarajah, R Zhou… - Applied Physics …, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
We present detailed numerical simulations of the laser dynamics that describe optical
frequency comb formation by injection-locking a gain-switched laser. The typical rate …

Nonlinear dynamics induced by optical injection in optical frequency combs generated by gain-switching of laser diodes

A Quirce, A Rosado, J Díez, A Valle… - IEEE Photonics …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present experiments and numerical simulations of optical frequency combs generated
by gain-switching a single mode laser diode when subject to optical injection. Our analysis …

Study of extra wide coherent optical combs generated by a QW-based integrated passively mode-locked ring laser

V Moskalenko, J Koelemeij, K Williams, E Bente - Optics letters, 2017 - opg.optica.org
We present an investigation of an InP quantum-well-based integrated extended cavity
passively mode-locked laser which shows extra broad frequency comb generation. The ring …

Demonstration of a stable ultrafast laser based on a nonlinear microcavity

M Peccianti, A Pasquazi, Y Park, BE Little… - Nature …, 2012 - nature.com
Ultrashort pulsed lasers, operating through the phenomenon of mode-locking, have had a
significant role in many facets of our society for 50 years, for example, in the way we …

High-order coherent communications using mode-locked dark-pulse Kerr combs from microresonators

A Fülöp, M Mazur, A Lorences-Riesgo… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Microresonator frequency combs harness the nonlinear Kerr effect in an integrated optical
cavity to generate a multitude of phase-locked frequency lines. The line spacing can reach …