摘要:
A semiconductor lasing device (10) for emitting radiation at multiple distinct wavelengths, the device (10) comprising an active layer (16) having first portion (20) and a second portion (21), the first and second portions (20, 21) being separated by a Bragg grating (19) extending through the entire depth of the active layer (16), the first portion (20) defining a first lasing cavity (29) for emitting electromagnetic radiation at a first wavelength λ 1 and the first and second portions (20, 21) together defining a second lasing cavity (31) for emitting electromagnetic radiation at a second wavelength λ 2 .
摘要:
A tunable laser has a gain material (10) and a mirror (60) defining an external resonant cavity (70). A tunable Fabry-Perot etalon (40) disposed along the optical path between the mirror (60) and the gain material (10) includes a liquid crystal layer (44) having a variable refractive index to tune the transmission peaks of the etalon (40) and the resonant frequency of the laser resonant cavity (70), A second etalon (30) having a fixed set of transmission peaks can also be included in the laser resonant cavity (70). The tunable etalon (40) is then tuned to select a resonant frequency corresponding to one of the transmission peaks of the fixed etalon (30).
摘要:
To provide an oscillation device having a long oscillation wavelength (THz) in which wavelength variable width is relatively broad and wavelength sweep rate is relatively high. An oscillation device includes a gain medium (103) having a gain with respect to an electromagnetic wave to be oscillated, cavity structures (104, 105) for resonating the electromagnetic wave, and energy injection means (121, 122A) and for injecting pumping energy into the gain medium. The gain medium is sandwiched between a first negative permittivity medium (102, 112) and a second magnetic permittivity medium (101, 111) each of which real part of permittivity with respect to the electromagnetic wave is negative. Electric field application means (122B) is provided for at least one of the first negative permittivity medium and the second negative permittivity medium to apply an electric field for changing a depletion region formed at a boundary part with the gain medium.
摘要:
Semi-integrated external cavity diode laser (ECDL) (300A) designs including integrated structures (302A) comprising a gain section (400), phase control section (402), and optional modulator section (404). Each integrated structure includes a waveguide (406) that passes through each of the sections. A mirror (408) is defined in the structure to define one end of a laser cavity. A reflective element (314) is disposed generally opposite a rear facet (410) of the gain section (400), forming an external cavity therebetween. A tunable filter (310) is disposed in the external cavity to effectuate tuning of the laser. During operation, a modulated drive signal (332) is provided to the phase control section (402). This modulates an optical path length of the laser cavity, which produces an intensity (amplitude) modulation in the laser output. A detector is employed to produce a feedback signal indicative of the intensity modulation that is used for tuning the laser in accordance with a wavelength locking servo loop. Upon passing through the modulator section (404), an optical signal is modulated with data (722).
摘要:
A method of frequency and mode stabilising a tuneable laser, wherein one or more measurable magnitudes is/are measured, wherein the laser has been characterised with respect to a number of operation points, and wherein the values of the measurable magnitude or magnitudes are stored in a microprocessor or corresponding device.The invention is characterised by causing the values of one or more of the measurable magnitudes to be non-extreme values; storing the values of such non-extreme values as a quotient where the numerator is the derivative of a measurable magnitude delta Y with respect to a control current delta I to one laser section, and where the denominator is the derivative of another measurable magnitude delta Z with respect to said control current delta I; and using the stored values to control the laser to a desired operation point.
摘要:
A method of evaluating a tuneable laser (15) and determining suitable laser operation points, wherein said laser includes two or more tuneable sections in which injected currents can be varied, of which sections at least one is a reflector section and one is a phase section. The invention is characterised by leading part of the light emitted by the laser (15) to an arrangement which includes a Fabry-Perot filter (32) and a first detector (33) and a second detector (34), said detectors being adapted to measure the power of the laser and to deliver a corresponding detector signal (I1, I2); arranging the detectors relative to the Fabry-Perot filter so that the detector signals (I1, I2) will contain information relating at least to the wavelength of the detected light; sweeping the currents through the tuning sections (17, 18, 19) such as to pass through different current combinations; measuring the ratio between the two detector signals (I1, I2) during said sweep, wherein the reflector current (17) is the inner sweep variable which is swept in one direction and then in an opposite direction back to its start value; and storing the control combination for said tuning currents when the ratio between the detector signals (I1, I2) lies within a predetermined range signifying that the emitted light lies within one of a number of wavelengths given by the Fabry-Perot filter (32) and said ratio lies within said predetermined range for a given reflector current in both sweep directions of said reflector current.
摘要:
An external-cavity frequency-tuned laser having a tunable longitudinal cavity mode and a center tunable wavelength includes an optical gain medium positioned within the optical cavity, and a rapid tuning wavelength selecting device positioned to receive light from the optical gain medium and adapted to return selected wavelengths of light to the optical gain medium. The external-cavity frequency-tuned laser is substantially continuously tunable and the tunable wavelength selecting device tunes the center wavelength of the external-cavity frequency-tuned laser at the same rate as the longitudinal cavity mode of the external-cavity frequency-tuned laser is tuned. In another embodiment the optical system includes an interferometer in optical communication with the external-cavity frequency-tuned laser. The interferometer is adapted to project a portion of light from the external-cavity frequency-tuned laser onto a sample and to combine light reflected from the sample and the light from the external-cavity frequency-tuned laser.
摘要:
An optical source comprises:a laser comprising an optical gain section and an optical phase control section; a transmission filter configured to receive and filter light output from the laser; a partial reflector configured to receive filtered light from the filter and to input filtered light back into the laser; at least one base member; and a temperature control element. At least the transmission filter and the partial reflector are mounted on a first of the at least one base member. The temperature control element is configured to control the temperature of the at least one base member.
摘要:
An optical source includes a semiconductor optical amplifier that provides an optical signal, and a photonic chip with first and second ring resonators that operate as Vernier rings. When the optical source is operated below a lasing threshold, one or more thermal-tuning mechanisms, which may be thermally coupled to the first ring resonator and/or the second ring resonator, may be adjusted to align resonances of the first ring resonator and the second ring resonator based on measured optical power on a shared optical waveguide that is optically coupled to the first and second ring resonators. Then, when the optical source is operated above the lasing threshold, a common thermal-tuning mechanism may be adjusted to lock the aligned resonances with an optical cavity mode of the optical source based on a measured optical power on an optical waveguide that is optically coupled to the first ring resonator.
摘要:
An emitting device (1) is intended for delivering photons with a chosen wavelength. This emitting device (1) comprises an InP substrate (2) with a directly modulated laser (3) arranged for generating photons modulated by a non-return-to-zero modulation to produce data to be transmitted, a passive ring resonator (4) monolithically integrated with the directly modulated laser (3) and having a resonance amongst several ones that is used for filtering a zero level induced by the data modulation, and a tuning means (5) arranged along the directly modulated laser (3) and/or around the ring resonator (4) to tune the photon wavelength and/or the ring resonator resonance used for filtering.