Pulse operation of semiconductor laser with nonlinear optical feedback

Celine Guignard; Pascal Besnard; Adrian Mihaescu; K. F. MacDonald; Sebastien Pochon; Nikolay I. Zheludev

doi:10.1117/12.545904

1 September 2004 Pulse operation of semiconductor laser with nonlinear optical feedback

Celine Guignard, Pascal Besnard, Adrian Mihaescu, K. F. MacDonald, Sebastien Pochon, Nikolay I. Zheludev

Proceedings Volume 5452, Semiconductor Lasers and Laser Dynamics; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.545904
Event: Photonics Europe, 2004, Strasbourg, France

Abstract

A semiconductor laser coupled to a gallium-made non linear mirror may exhibit pulse regime. In order to better understand this coupled cavity, stationary solutions and dynamics are described following the standard Lang and Kobayashi equations for a semiconductor laser submitted to nonlinear optical feedback. It is shown that the nonlinearity distorts the ellipse on which lied the stationary solutions, with a "higher" part corresponding to lower reflectivity and a "lower" part to higher reflectivity. Bifurcation diagrams and nonlinear analysis are presented while the conditions for pulsed operation are discussed.

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Celine Guignard, Pascal Besnard, Adrian Mihaescu, K. F. MacDonald, Sebastien Pochon, and Nikolay I. Zheludev "Pulse operation of semiconductor laser with nonlinear optical feedback", Proc. SPIE 5452, Semiconductor Lasers and Laser Dynamics, (1 September 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.545904

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