FM CHARACTERISTICS AND COMPACT MODULES FOR COHERENT SEMICONDUCTOR-LASERS COUPLED TO AN EXTERNAL CAVITY

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作者
SHIN, CH [1 ]
TESHIMA, M [1 ]
OHTSU, M [1 ]
IMAI, T [1 ]
YOSHIDA, J [1 ]
NISHIDE, K [1 ]
机构
[1] TOKYO AIRCRAFT INSTRUMENT CO LTD,KOMAE,TOKYO 201,JAPAN
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10.1109/68.50878
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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
FM responses of a semiconductor laser optically coupled off-axis to a confocal Fabry-Perot cavity were measured. It was found that this cavity acted as a frequency discriminator and as a phase comparator for slow and fast frequency fluctuations, respectively. The crossover between them was determined by a half linewidth of the cavity. Based on these investigations, we made two kinds of coherent semiconductor laser modules. External FP cavities were made by using an optical fiber and a hemispherical micro-lens, respectively. Linewidths of these lasers were less than 25 kHz. © 1990 IEEE
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