Measurement Of Semiconductor .Laser Linewidth Enhancement Factor Using Coherent Optical Feedback

1989 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ki-Hyun Chung ◽  
John G. McInerney ◽  
Marek Osinski
Sensors ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (11) ◽  
pp. 4004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuxi Ruan ◽  
Bin Liu ◽  
Yanguang Yu ◽  
Jiangtao Xi ◽  
Qinghua Guo ◽  
...  

This paper presents a new method for measuring the linewidth enhancement factor (alpha factor) by the relaxation oscillation (RO) frequency of a laser with external optical feedback (EOF). A measurement formula for alpha is derived which shows the alpha can be determined by only using the RO frequencies and no need to know any other parameters related to the internal or external parameters associated to the laser. Unlike the existing EOF based alpha measurement methods which require an external target has a symmetric reciprocate movement. The proposed method only needs to move the target to be in a few different positions along the light beam. Furthermore, this method also suits for the case with alpha less than 1. Both simulation and experiment are performed to verify the proposed method.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Junaid Khan

This paper presents a novel algorithm for measuring the linewidth enhancement factor of semiconductor lasers and the optical feedback level factor in a semiconductor laser with an external cavity. The proposed approach is based on analysis of the self-mixing phase equation to deduce equations for finding parameters given only knowledge of the perturbed phase. The effectiveness of the method has been validated with accuracy of 8.6%and 1.7% for 'C' and alpha respectively while covering all feedback regimes.


2021 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
N.M. Al-Hosiny

The effect of the linewidth enhancement factor (LEF) or α-factor on two common routes to chaos (mainly period-doubling and quasi-periodic routes) in optically injected semiconductor laser is theoretically investigated using bifurcation diagrams. The value of the LEF is slightly modified to examine the sensitivity of routes to chaos to any variation in the LEF. Despite the fact that LEF enhances chaos in the system, both routes are found to be highly insensitive to the variation in the LEF.


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