MEASUREMENT OF THE FACET MODAL REFLECTIVITY SPECTRUM IN HIGH-QUALITY SEMICONDUCTOR TRAVELING-WAVE AMPLIFIERS

被引:15
作者
MERRITT, SA
DAUGA, C
FOX, S
WU, IF
DAGENAIS, M
机构
[1] Joint Program for Advanced Electronic Materials, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park
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10.1109/50.372438
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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
We demonstrate that the Hakki-Paoli technique, commonly used for measuring single pass gain in semiconductor lasers, can be modified to measure facet modal reflectivity down to 10(-6) in semiconductor laser amplifiers. We also introduce a new technique based on Fourier and Hilbert transformations of the spontaneous emission spectrum (the SET method) which enhances the signal-to-noise ratio and permits modal reflectivity measurements down to 10(-7).
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