A numerical study of cavity enhanced inter-modal four wave mixing in injection-locked semiconductor ring lasers

Huanlu Li; Dan Lu; Zexin Kang; Xinlun Cai; Ning Zhang; Siyuan Yu

doi:10.1109/JQE.2013.2279936

A numerical study of cavity enhanced inter-modal four wave mixing in injection-locked semiconductor ring lasers

Huanlu Li, Dan Lu, Zexin Kang, Xinlun Cai, Ning Zhang, Siyuan Yu

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Mode beating via third order nonlinearity in semiconductor ring lasers has been analyzed using a frequency-domain multimode rate equation model. Compared with Fabry-Perot lasers, semiconductor ring lasers are 1.33, 2, and 4 times more efficient in self-gain compression, cross-gain compression, and four-wave mixing processes, respectively, due to its travelling-wave nature. It is shown that, using dual (pump and signal) external optical injections into the ring laser cavity, multiple modes can be locked in phase via the strong four wave mixing phenomenon. This results in modulation of the light wave at the mode beating frequencies which could be used for RF optical carrier generation.

Original language	English
Article number	6587518
Pages (from-to)	862-869
Number of pages	8
Journal	IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics
Volume	49
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/JQE.2013.2279936
Publication status	Published - 30 Sept 2013

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four-wave mixing
frequency domain model
nonlinearity
Semiconductor ring laser

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A numerical study of cavity enhanced inter-modal four wave mixing in injection-locked semiconductor ring lasers

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