High-repetition-rate pulse generation using dual-mode self-injection locking in a Fabry-Perot laser diode

Xiaohui Fang; Ping-Kong A. Wai; Chao Lu; Hwa-Yaw Tam; Xinyong Dong

doi:10.1117/1.3456597

1 July 2010 High-repetition-rate pulse generation using dual-mode self-injection locking in a Fabry-Perot laser diode

Xiaohui Fang, Ping-Kong A. Wai, Chao Lu, Hwa-Yaw Tam, Xinyong Dong

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 49, Issue 7, 074201 (July 2010). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.3456597

Abstract

A novel and simple method is presented to generate a tunable high-repetition-rate pulse train based on dual-mode self-injection locking of a Fabry-Perot laser diode (FP-LD). Two fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs) are used in the experiment as feedback components. The two self-injection-locked modes evolve into a high-power, high-repetition-rate pulse train through the interplay between self-phase modulation and anomalous dispersion in a highly nonlinear fiber. A 139.6-GHz transform-limited pulse train with a peak power of 120 mW is generated. The pulsewidth is 1.7 ps, and the time-bandwidth product is 0.31. The repetition rate can be tuned by tuning the Bragg wavelengths of one of the two or both FBGs to coincide with other FP-LD modes. The output pulse is stable.

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Xiaohui Fang, Ping-Kong A. Wai, Chao Lu, Hwa-Yaw Tam, and Xinyong Dong "High-repetition-rate pulse generation using dual-mode self-injection locking in a Fabry-Perot laser diode," Optical Engineering 49(7), 074201 (1 July 2010). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.3456597

Published: 1 July 2010

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