Nonresonant self-injection seeding of a gain-switched diode laser

Authors
Rafailov, EU Birkin, DJL Sibbett, W Avrutin, EA
Citation
Eu. Rafailov et al., Nonresonant self-injection seeding of a gain-switched diode laser, IEEE S T QU, 7(2), 2001, pp. 287-292
Citations number
12
Categorie Soggetti
Apllied Physucs/Condensed Matter/Materiales Science","Eletrical & Eletronics Engineeing
Journal title
IEEE JOURNAL OF SELECTED TOPICS IN QUANTUM ELECTRONICS
ISSN journal
1077260X → ACNP
Volume
7
Issue
2
Year of publication
2001
Pages
287 - 292
Database
ISI
SICI code
1077-260X(200103/04)7:2<287:NSSOAG>2.0.ZU;2-2
Abstract
We demonstrate step-tunable single-mode operation of a gain-switched diode laser by nonresonant self-injection seeding from an uncoated glass slide us ed as an external cavity reflector. A spectral bandwidth reduction from 11 mn to 0.05 nm and wavelength tunability has been achieved for picosecond (n ear-transform-limited) pulses with little effect on other laser characteris tics. Good agreement with numerical simulations based on a compound-cavity laser model is also reported.