Dynamics of semiconductor lasers with filtered optical feedback

B Krauskopf, H. Erzgräber, D. Lenstra

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Abstract

In the filtered optical feedback (FOF) scheme a part of the emission of the laser is spectrally filtered, for example by a Fabry-P´erot filter, and than fed back into the laser. If a semiconductor laser is subject to such delayed FOF qualitative different types of oscillations are possible: the well known relaxation oscillations and, more remarkably, frequency oscillations. We explain how the continuous wave operation of the FOF laser — the external filtered modes — lose their stability and the different types of oscillations arise due to the presence of the filter. This study is restricted to the case of a narrow filter. This means that there are only a few external filtered modes within the width of the filter, so that the influence of the feedback phase can be studied explicitly.
Translated title of the contributionDynamics of semiconductor lasers with filtered optical feedback
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSPIE 2006
Volume6184
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Apr 2006

Bibliographical note

Name and Venue of Event: Semiconductor Lasers and Laser Dynamics II
Other: http://rose.bris.ac.uk/dspace/handle/1983/423

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