Assessment of a sub-MHz linewidth fiber Bragg grating external-cavity InGaN laser diode

Laurent Lablonde; Catherine Le Rouzic; Thierry Robin; Antoine Congar; Stéphane Trebaol; Mathilde Gay; Georges Perin; Dominique Mammez; Jean-Claude Simon; Pascal Besnard; Julien Rouvillain; Thierry Georges

doi:10.1117/12.2577147

5 March 2021 Assessment of a sub-MHz linewidth fiber Bragg grating external-cavity InGaN laser diode

Laurent Lablonde, Catherine Le Rouzic, Thierry Robin, Antoine Congar, Stéphane Trebaol, Mathilde Gay, Georges Perin, Dominique Mammez, Jean-Claude Simon, Pascal Besnard, Julien Rouvillain, Thierry Georges

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Proceedings Volume 11686, Gallium Nitride Materials and Devices XVI; 116860N (2021) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2577147
Event: SPIE OPTO, 2021, Online Only

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Narrow linewidth laser diodes (LDs) emitting in the near-UV (NUV) are gaining attention for applications ranging from spectroscopy to atom cooling and interferometry or other applications requiring high spectral purity. InGaN edge-emitting LDs can exhibit a power of hundreds of mW in an unstable multimode regime detrimental to aforementioned uses. In this paper we report on a compact and robust design based on a low-cost blue LD, a beam shaping optical system and a fiber Bragg grating (FBG) acting as a wavelength selective reflector. One longitudinal mode of the non-antireflection coated laser diode is selected by a close to 30 pm bandwidth FBG allowing a few mW output power around 400 nm and a sidemode- suppression-ratio approaching 50 dB exceeding our last published results. Our previous studies showed that a single-frequency regime with a sub-MHz integrated linewidth and an estimated intrinsic linewidth of 16 kHz was possible by a carefully engineered external cavity. We will study the influence of the cavity length with different fiber types (SM or PM). Assessment will focus on the linewidth and a detailed intensity and frequency noise analysis of the emission. We will also investigate for the first-time the stability of several types of UV-FBG submitted to tens of mW of 400 nm light guided into the fiber core. This work demonstrates state-of-the-art performances by connecting low-cost components and opens the way to the fabrication of highly coherent laser sources that could meet the markets for the NUV applications.

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Laurent Lablonde, Catherine Le Rouzic, Thierry Robin, Antoine Congar, Stéphane Trebaol, Mathilde Gay, Georges Perin, Dominique Mammez, Jean-Claude Simon, Pascal Besnard, Julien Rouvillain, and Thierry Georges "Assessment of a sub-MHz linewidth fiber Bragg grating external-cavity InGaN laser diode", Proc. SPIE 11686, Gallium Nitride Materials and Devices XVI, 116860N (5 March 2021); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2577147

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