Using Transitional Points in the Optical Injection Locking Behavior of a Semiconductor Laser to Extract Its Dimensionless Operating Parameters

• Published in: IEEE journal of selected topics in quantum electronics Vol. 28; no. 1: Semiconductor Lasers; pp. 1 - 9
• Main Authors: Herrera, Daniel, Kovanis, Vassilios, Lester, Luke
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 01.01.2022; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Boundaries; Distributed feedback devices; Distributed feedback lasers; Frequency locking; Hopf bifurcation; Injection locked oscillators; Laser mode locking; Laser stability; Lasers; Mathematical analysis; Nonlinear optics; Optical feedback; Optical injection; Optical pumping; Parameters; Relaxation oscillations; Semiconductor lasers; Spectrum analysers; Threshold currents

The complete set of intrinsic dimensionless parameters of a packaged and fiber-pigtailed distributed feedback (DFB) semiconductor laser are extracted from the non-linear operational stability boundaries of the optical-injection-locking (OIL) architecture. Specifically, this procedure is done by rela...