In this paper, a ring laser design based on tapered waveguide coupler is fabricated and discussed. Using the asymmetric tapered waveguide coupler, two different directional coupling can be realized. Such that, the spatial-hole burning problem in linear laser cavity can be avoided, leading to the possibility of unidirectional traveling laser.
In the work, two types of ring laser structures are fabricated and analyzed, in which (1) 90 degrees total reflection mirrors (TIMs) and (2) circular retro-mirrors are defined. Through the current injection on the tapered waveguide coupler, the received spontaneous emissions power at different directions (clockwise and counterclockwise directions) shows a 3dB difference for both type (1) and (2). Two oscillations in ring resonator could give different round-trip loss, indicating the possibility to fabricate unidirectional ring laser.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0909109-195114 |
| Date | 09 September 2009 |
| Creators | Lin, Wen-sheng |
| Contributors | Ann-Kuo Chu, Yi-Jen Chiu, Chao-Kuei Lee |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0909109-195114 |
| Rights | not_available, Copyright information available at source archive |
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