High Speed Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers with Injection Locking

The injection-locked power amplifier (ILPA) has demonstrated relatively high gain and high efficiency at millimeter-wave frequency. However, their application is still limited by its sensitivity to loading effect and narrow injection locking bandwidth. In this letter, a wide injection locking ILPA using buffered input and output has been proposed and implemented on 65 nm CMOS technology. The bu...

Optical injection locking and optical phase-lock loops have been used for laser synchronization. The use of a combined optical injection locking and phase-lock loop system is proposed here. We have taken into account the modification of the slave laser phase response induced by the injection locking to calculated the phase-error signal spectrum and the phase-error variance for an optical inject...

Pure Q-switching (self-pulsating) behaviour is shown for the first time in an optically injected two-section quantum-dot laser. Upon CW optical injection, it was possible to switch operation regime from free-running mode-locking locked Q-switching. Under this regime, pulse repetition rate of around 1 GHz tunable with injection power (by more than 100 MHz) and absorber reverse bias. Moreover, th...

The entrainment dynamics of two chemical-oscillators in an excitable medium separated by some distance d was experimentally studied in the light-sensitive BelousovZhabotinsky reaction under application of external noise. Two chemical-oscillators were always spontaneously synchronized at sufficiently small d or frequency difference in the absence of noise. For insufficient distance to entrain ea...

We report on injection locking of optically excited mechanical oscillations of a single, trapped ion. The injection locking dynamics are studied by analyzing the oscillator spectrum with a spatially selective Fourier transform technique and the oscillator phase with stroboscopic imaging. In both cases we find excellent agreement with theory inside and outside the locking range. We attain inject...

We report a novel application of self-injection locking. A diode laser is injection locked to its own frequency-shifted emission. By resonant phase modulation of the fed-back light, the laser's emission frequency is shown to swing periodically through the locking range. The laser operates as a sweep generator driven by resonant self-injection locking.

The VIRGO injection system, designed to provide a stable single-frequency 20 W laser to the VIRGO interferometer, is under commissioning. All functions have been demonstrated to work close to requirements, and the integration of all of them is in progress.

In this Letter, we present Fourier-transform-limited, nanosecond scale optical pulses from a vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) using injection locking with narrow-band seed laser. We examine two different injection-locking architectures and show that can achieve an effective range of over 8 GHz extinction ratio 20,000:1. These results indicate injection-locked VCSELs could become k...

Injection locking has been actively researched for its possibility to improve laser performance for both digital and analog applications. When a modulated follower laser (also termed “slave” laser) is locked to the master laser, its nonlinear distortion and frequency chirp may be reduced. As well, the resonance frequency can increase to several times higher than its free running case. In this p...