Low frequency fluctuations and multimode operation of a semiconductor laser with optical feedback

Year: 1998

Authors: Huyet G., Balle S., Giudici M., Green C., Giacomelli G., Tredicce J.

Autors Affiliation: Departament de Fýsica, UniÍersitat de les Illes Balears, 07071 Palma de Mallorca, Spain; Institut Non Linéaire de Nice, UMR 129 CNRS-UNSA, 1361 Route des Lucioles, 06560 Valbonne, France; Istituto Nazionale di Ottica, Largo E. Fermi 6, 50125 Firenze, Italy, and INFN, sezione di Firenze, Florence, Italy

Abstract: We experimentally investigate low frequency fluctuations (LFF) in a Fabry-Perot semiconductor laser with optical feedback from an external mirror. During LFF, the time resolved optical spectrum shows that many longitudinal modes of the solitary laser enter into the transients. After each LFF event, the excited solitary-laser modes recover similarly. However, the recovery for the power in each mode is much slower than the recovery of the total power. The intermode exchange of energy during the recovery indicates that a single-longitudinal mode description of such LFF behavior will not capture important underlying dynamics. The relevance of multimode dynamics is confirmed in a feedback experiment where the external mirror is substituted by a diffraction grating. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science B.V.

Journal/Review: OPTICS COMMUNICATIONS (PRINT)

Volume: 149 (4-6)      Pages from: 341  to: 347

KeyWords: semiconductor laser; fluctuations; optical feedback
DOI: 10.1016/S0030-4018(97)00751-7

Citations: 70
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