Title
All Optical Stabilization of a Monolithic Quantum Dot Based CPM Laser Via Four-Wave Mixing
Abbreviated Journal Title
IEEE Photonics Technol. Lett.
Keywords
Four-wave mixing; injection locking; mode-locked laser; quantum dot; timing jitter; LOCKED SEMICONDUCTOR-LASERS; MODE-LOCKING; Engineering, Electrical & Electronic; Optics; Physics, Applied
Abstract
We investigate and confirm a four-wave mixing (FWM) process as the primary mechanism responsible for locking and stabilization of a previously reported novel quantum dot based monolithically coupled colliding pulse mode-locked (CPM) laser. In the previous letter, a high-Q passively mode-locked ring laser is used to injection lock an orthogonally coupled passively mode-locked CPM slave laser via FWM in the common saturable absorber. In this letter, we setup an experiment to verify the FWM process, whereby the external ring laser is operated unidirectionally while simultaneously analyzing the amplified spontaneous emission from the other facet of the ring laser. The emission is found to contain CPM light only in the presence of injection locking proving the FWM process. Other linear scattering effects are also investigated and shown to be negligible in the orthogonal waveguide configuration.
Journal Title
Ieee Photonics Technology Letters
Volume
25
Issue/Number
16
Publication Date
1-1-2013
Document Type
Article
Language
English
First Page
1566
Last Page
1569
WOS Identifier
ISSN
1041-1135
Recommended Citation
"All Optical Stabilization of a Monolithic Quantum Dot Based CPM Laser Via Four-Wave Mixing" (2013). Faculty Bibliography 2010s. 3626.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/facultybib2010/3626
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