SELF-PULSATION IN MULTIELECTRODE DISTRIBUTED-FEEDBACK LASERS

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作者
DUAN, GH
LANDAIS, P
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[1] Departement Communications, École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, 75634 Paris cedex 13, 46, Rue Barrault
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10.1109/68.372745
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TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
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0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
Measurements on multielectrode distributed feedback (DFB) lasers without a saturable absorber reveal the:existence of a self-pulsation (SP) regime, In this regime, the laser remains in the same single-longitudinal mode with simultaneous intensity and frequency modulation, The laser spectrum is similar to that of a current-modulated single-mode laser, At the up-limit of the SP regime, the behavior between the output power and the injection current becomes bistable. In one branch of the bistable loop, the SP laser presents a very large spectrum without distinguishable peaks, a kind of chaotic state with coherence collapse, A qualitative explanation based on the effective differential gain is given for the origin of SP and associated phenomena in these lasers.
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