The coherence of a semiconductor laser subjected to a coherent optical feedback of greater than -30 dB will collapse, causing the laser¡¦s performance in many applications to be severely degraded. This research investigated the feasibility of suppression the coherence collapse with orthogonal-polarization optical feedback.
In the experiments, we first studied the characteristics of coherence collapse state of semiconductor laser. Under an operational condition of 63.9 mA, 21.9¢J and -11 dB of coherent optical feedback, a Hitachi HLP 7806G semiconductor laser would be conducted from its solitary single-mode state into a multimode oscillation state with a very broad linewidth. At the same time, the relative intensity noise measured from the RF spectrum analyzer drastically raised about 15 dB.
When a -16 dB and a -23 dB orthogonal-polarization optical feedback were fed back into the laser¡¦s cavity. The coherence collapse could be effectively suppressed, while the laser was conducted back to its solitary single-mode state stably. This result will greatly increase the application of the laser. Some experiments were also reported to explore the interaction between the laser and the orthogonal-polarization feedback light.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0705105-155100 |
| Date | 05 July 2005 |
| Creators | Lin, Jian-yu |
| Contributors | Tsu-Chiang Yen, Hsen-Che Tseng, Chin-Chun Tsai, Tyson Lin |
| 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-0705105-155100 |
| Rights | unrestricted, Copyright information available at source archive |
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