Short pulse generation by electrical gain switching of vertical cavity surface emitting laser

1991 ◽  
Vol 27 (21) ◽  
pp. 1956 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Lin ◽  
J.K. Gamelin ◽  
S. Wang ◽  
M. Hong ◽  
J.P. Mannaerts
2020 ◽  
Vol 70 (5) ◽  
pp. 538-541
Author(s):  
K. Murali Krishna ◽  
M. Ganesh Madhan ◽  
P. Ashok

Vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) is a strong candidate for short pulse generation among the other semiconductor lasers in the era of laser technology. A 1550 nm, low power VCSEL is excited under different current shapes and the chief laser parameters are found out. The concept of gain switching under various current profiles are utilized effectively to bring out maximum laser power with minimum pulse width, which are the essential factors for long haul high speed optical data transmission. For a haversine electrical current input with 3.7 Ith amplitude, a laser peak power of 2.2 mW at 57 ps pulse width is obtained. In the case of trapezoidal pulse, 67 ps pulse width is obtained for 2.6 Ith current amplitude. It is also observed that square pulse of amplitude 2 Ith produces short optical pulse of 0.887 mW peak power and 89 ps width which shows the best performance when compared to other forms of pulses discussed in this work at the same input condition.


2012 ◽  
Vol 101 (19) ◽  
pp. 191108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shaoqiang Chen ◽  
Makoto Okano ◽  
Baoping Zhang ◽  
Masahiro Yoshita ◽  
Hidefumi Akiyama ◽  
...  

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Consoli ◽  
I. Esquivias ◽  
F. J. López-Hernández ◽  
S. Balle ◽  
J. Mulet

2012 ◽  
Vol 5 (8) ◽  
pp. 082104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hideyuki Naito ◽  
Masahiro Miyamoto ◽  
Yuta Aoki ◽  
Akira Higuchi ◽  
Kousuke Torii ◽  
...  

Photonics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 95
Author(s):  
Huiping Ren ◽  
Li Fan ◽  
Na Liu ◽  
Zhengmao Wu ◽  
Guangqiong Xia

In this work, broadband optical frequency comb (OFC) generation by a gain-switching vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) subject to optical injection is investigated experimentally. During implementing the experiment, a 1550 nm VCSEL under a large signal current modulation is driven into the gain-switching state with a broad noisy spectrum. By further introducing an optical injection, a high performance OFC can be produced. The experimental results demonstrate that the power and wavelength of the injection light seriously affect the performance of the produced OFC. Under proper optical injection parameters, two sub-combs originating from two orthogonal polarization components of the VCSEL can splice into a broadband total-OFC. By selecting optimized operation parameters, a high quality total-OFC can be acquired, with stable comb lines, high coherence, wide bandwidth of 70.0 GHz (56.0 GHz) within 10 dB (3 dB) amplitude variation and low single sideband phase noise at the fundamental frequency below −120.6 dBc/Hz @ 10 kHz.


2003 ◽  
Vol 76 (5) ◽  
pp. 603-608 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Totschnig ◽  
M. Lackner ◽  
R. Shau ◽  
M. Ortsiefer ◽  
J. Rosskopf ◽  
...  

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