TY - GEN
T1 - Bistability in a two-colour semiconductor laser with dual injection
AU - Heinricht, Patrycja
AU - Wetzel, Benjamin
AU - O'Brien, Stephen
AU - Amann, Andreas
AU - Osborne, Simon
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Optically injected semiconductor lasers exhibit a range of dynamical phenomonen, which for a single mode laser subjected to a single injection the bifurcations between these dynamical regions have been explained with simple rate equations [1]. Recently, motivated by potential switching applications, the dynamics of two-mode lasers including VCSELs, ring lasers and two-colour Fabry-Pérot (FP) lasers have been of interest. In this work we consider theoretically and experimentally a two-colour FP laser subjected to dual injection and demonstrate a new bistable region between two locked states. Fig. 1(a). shows the optical spectrum of the two-colour FP laser which has a 480 GHz mode spacing resulting in simultaneous oscillation of the two primary modes, ω1 and ω2 [2].
AB - Optically injected semiconductor lasers exhibit a range of dynamical phenomonen, which for a single mode laser subjected to a single injection the bifurcations between these dynamical regions have been explained with simple rate equations [1]. Recently, motivated by potential switching applications, the dynamics of two-mode lasers including VCSELs, ring lasers and two-colour Fabry-Pérot (FP) lasers have been of interest. In this work we consider theoretically and experimentally a two-colour FP laser subjected to dual injection and demonstrate a new bistable region between two locked states. Fig. 1(a). shows the optical spectrum of the two-colour FP laser which has a 480 GHz mode spacing resulting in simultaneous oscillation of the two primary modes, ω1 and ω2 [2].
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/80052287739
U2 - 10.1109/CLEOE.2011.5943569
DO - 10.1109/CLEOE.2011.5943569
M3 - Conference proceeding
AN - SCOPUS:80052287739
SN - 9781457705335
T3 - 2011 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe and 12th European Quantum Electronics Conference, CLEO EUROPE/EQEC 2011
BT - 2011 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe and 12th European Quantum Electronics Conference, CLEO EUROPE/EQEC 2011
T2 - 2011 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe and 12th European Quantum Electronics Conference, CLEO EUROPE/EQEC 2011
Y2 - 22 May 2011 through 26 May 2011
ER -