Repetition rate control of optical self‐injected passively mode‐locked quantum‐well lasers: experiment and simulation. Issue 6 (1st March 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Auth, D.; Drzewietzki, L.; Weber, C.; Klehr, A.; Knigge, A.; Breuer, S.
• Is Part Of: Electronics letters. Volume 54:Issue 6(2018)
• Page Start: 374
• Page End: 376
• Publication Date: 2018-03-01
• Subjects: laser feedback -- delays -- laser cavity resonators -- laser mode locking -- timing jitter -- quantum well lasers -- laser tuning -- laser stability -- optical pulse generation; repetition rate control -- locking range -- pulse train timing stability -- quantum‐well semiconductor lasers subject -- single‐cavity optical self‐feedback -- simple time‐domain model -- universal stochastic time‐domain model -- timing jitter improvement -- OFB cavities -- RR tuning -- OFB delay length -- optical self‐injected passively mode‐locked quantum‐well lasers -- pulse repetition rate tuning -- QW SCL -- time‐delay ML laser stabilisation -- size 73.1 m; Electronics -- Periodicals; 621.381
• DOI: 10.1049/el.2017.4768
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0013-5194

Abstract

Abstract : The pulse repetition rate (RR) tuning and locking range (LR) as well as the pulse train timing stability of passively mode‐locked quantum‐well (QW) semiconductor lasers (SCLs) subject to single‐cavity optical self‐feedback (OFB) are investigated experimentally and by simulations. A simple and universal stochastic time‐domain model confirms the experimentally observed RR control and LR as well as timing jitter (TJ) improvement in QW SCLs subject to very long OFB cavities with lengths up to 73.1 m. In particular, the model allows predicting control potential and limits of the RR tuning, locking and TJ improvement depending on the choice of OFB delay length for time‐delay mode‐locked semiconductor laser stabilisation experiments.