Antiphase Noise Dynamics in a Dual-Wavelength Vertical-External-Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser

M. Wichmann; G. Town; J. Quante; M. Gaafar; A. Rahimi-Iman; W. Stolz; Stephan W Koch; M. Koch

doi:10.1109/LPT.2015.2449656

Antiphase Noise Dynamics in a Dual-Wavelength Vertical-External-Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser

M. Wichmann, G. Town, J. Quante, M. Gaafar, A. Rahimi-Iman, W. Stolz, Stephan W Koch, M. Koch

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Abstract

We present extensive measurements of the pump-dependent dynamics of antiphase noise in a dual-wavelength multimode vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting laser (VECSEL). We show that antiphase noise at frequencies below 10 kHz dominates the relative-intensity noise spectrum in the emission of a dual-wavelength VECSEL due to gain competition between the two-lasing wavelengths. We observe that with increasing pump power the antiphase noise decreases in amplitude but increases in bandwidth. Surprisingly, at even higher pump powers the spectral extent of the antiphase noise narrows significantly. The results provide information critical to potential applications of dual-wavelength VECSELs, such as intracavity parametric frequency conversion.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	7132712
Pages (from-to)	2039-2042
Number of pages	4
Journal	IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
Volume	27
Issue number	19
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/LPT.2015.2449656
State	Published - Oct 1 2015
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

anti-phase noise dynamics
Dual-wavelength
semiconductor disk laser (SDL)
vertical-external cavity surface-emitting laser (VECSEL)

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Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials

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