The linewidth of distributed feedback resonators: the combined effect of thermally induced chirp and gain narrowing

Cristine C. Kores; Dimitri Geskus; Nur Ismail; Meindert Dijkstra; Edward H. Bernhardi; Markus Pollnau

doi:10.1117/12.2252739

20 February 2017 The linewidth of distributed feedback resonators: the combined effect of thermally induced chirp and gain narrowing

Cristine C. Kores, Dimitri Geskus, Nur Ismail, Meindert Dijkstra, Edward H. Bernhardi, Markus Pollnau

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Proceedings Volume 10090, Laser Resonators, Microresonators, and Beam Control XIX; 1009014 (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2252739
Event: SPIE LASE, 2017, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Distributed-feedback (DFB) laser resonators are widely recognized for their advantage of generating laser emission with extremely narrow linewidth. Our investigation concerns ytterbium-doped amorphous Al₂O₃ channel waveguides with a corrugated homogeneous Bragg grating inscribed into its SiO₂ top cladding, in which a λ/4 phase-shift provides a resonance and allows for laser emission with a linewidth as narrow as a few kHz. Pump absorption imposes a thermal chirp of the grating period, which has implications for the spectral characteristics of the resonator. Thermal effects on the spectral response of a DFB passive resonator were investigated via simulations using Coupled Mode Theory by considering (i) a constant deviation of the grating period or (ii) a chirp with a linear profile. We report an increase of the resonance linewidth up to 15%. This result is due to two factors, namely changes of the grating reflectivity at the resonance frequency up to 2.4% and of the shift of resonance frequency up to 61 pm due to an accumulated phase shift imposed on the grating by the chirp profile. The linewidth decrease due to gain is on the order of 10⁶, which is a much larger value. Nevertheless, according to the Schawlow-Townes equation the linewidth increase of the passive resonator due to a thermal chirp quadratically increases the laser linewidth.

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Cristine C. Kores, Dimitri Geskus, Nur Ismail, Meindert Dijkstra, Edward H. Bernhardi, and Markus Pollnau "The linewidth of distributed feedback resonators: the combined effect of thermally induced chirp and gain narrowing", Proc. SPIE 10090, Laser Resonators, Microresonators, and Beam Control XIX, 1009014 (20 February 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2252739

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