强增益耦合DFB激光器单片集成自对准模式变换器

提出并成功制作出一种新型的强增益耦合DFB激光器与自对准模式变换器单片集成器件.采用三次外延实现上述器件.采用强增益耦合DFB激光器,获得了高单模成品率和大边模抑制比器件;采用自对准模式变换器,得到了近圆形的远场图样.     

10Gbit/s高T0无制冷分布反馈激光器

与折射率耦合分布的分布反馈(DFB)激光器相比,不管界面反射率是多少,增益耦合DFB激光器都能稳定地单纵模工作,而且具有高速、低啁啾的特性.本课题组用AlGaInAs/InP材料,采用增益耦合DFB结构,进行了单纵模激光器研发,并对器件特性进行了测试分析.     

10Gbit/s高T0无制冷分布反馈激光器

与折射率耦合分布的分布反馈（DFB）激光器相比,不管界面反射率是多少,增益耦合DFB激光器都能稳定地单纵模工作,而且具有高速、低啁啾的特性．本课题组用AlGaInAs/InP材料,采用增益耦合DFB结构,进行了单纵模激光器研发,并对器件特性进行了测试分析．     

取样光栅分布反馈激光器阵列器件研究

采用了一种基于取样光栅原理制作多通道增益-折射率耦合型光栅的方法,成功制作了8波长分布反馈(DFB)激光器阵列,阵列中各激光器的阈值电流为30～40 mA,注入电流为100 mA时的平均输出光功率为10mW,阵列器件实现了波长的可选择性激射,相邻激光器间的频率间距为200 GHz,验证了用取样光栅方法制作DFB激光器阵列的可行性。     

考虑增益饱和及寄生参数的LD的模拟分析

基于包含增益饱和项的半导体激光器速率方程,分析了增益饱和因子和寄生参数对DFB激光器的动态特性的影响.建立了激光器用于数值计算的Simulink模型,对激光器的调制响应进行了数值分析;结合电子电路的特点,建立了一种考虑寄生参量的小信号等效电路模型,该模型将速率方程表征为由线性电路元件组成的电路模型;采用Matlab和PSpice两种软件模拟了该激光器的调制响应.结果表明张弛振荡频率和调制带宽随偏置电流的增加而增加,而增益饱和因子和寄生参数的存在使谐振频率衰减和带宽降低,同时也证明了所建模型的准确性和适用性.为改善DFB激光器的动态特性及优化设计器件结构参数提供了理论依据.     

非统一多量子阱波长可选DFB激光器

报道了一种单片集成的串联DFB激光器芯片,在合适工作条件下,可以在疏波分复用(CWDM)的两个信道波长激射。芯片通过非统一多量子阱有源区拓宽材料增益谱,给DFB激光器的纯折射率光栅引入弱增益耦合,提高DFB激光器的动态单模特性。芯片采用普通DFB激光器的制备工艺制备,工艺简单成本低,重复性高。测试结果表明,芯片能够在1.51μm和1.53μm两个波长激射,出光功率均能达到6mW以上,边模抑制比均达到40dB。     

半导体增益芯片与微透镜光纤耦合效率研究

光纤光栅外腔半导体激光器一般采用波导-光纤的直接耦合方式,光纤与增益芯片的耦合效率对光纤光栅外腔半导体激光器性能影响较大.为了讨论在采用不同类型光纤微透镜时对准误差对耦合效率的影响,寻找最佳微透镜类型,指导器件的设计和装配,分析了锥形和半球形光纤透镜的光线最大接收半角,利用ZEMAX软件进行模拟仿真,得到了两种光纤微透镜分别在位置误差和角度误差下的耦合效率曲线图.结果表明,锥形光纤透镜耦合效果更好,更适合应用于光纤光栅外腔半导体激光器.     

基于同一外延层结构的10Gb/s单片集成光发射模块

利用同一外延层集成工艺方法制作了10Gb/s电吸收调制器/分布反馈(DFB)半导体激光器单片集成光发射模块.在器件中引入增益耦合机制以提高单模成品率,并采用感应耦合等离子体干法刻蚀技术以降低调制器电容.集成器件阈值电流为12mA,在-2V偏置时的消光比为15dB,器件的小信号调制带宽超过10GHz.在10Gb/s调制速率下经过35km单模光纤传输后,误码率为10-12时的功率代价小于1dB.     

窄线宽半导体激光器件

分布反馈半导体激光器的线宽一般较大,难以满足光纤传感等领域的要求。根据C.H. Henry于1982年提出的半导体激光器的线宽理论,通过适当设计DFB半导体激光器的腔长、耦合系数、微分增益、光限制因子,能有效地减小激光器的线宽。同时,空间烧孔现象也可限制DFB半导体激光器的线宽,为此需要合理设计光栅结构。在此基础上,DFB激光器的线宽能达到几十千赫兹的量级。此外,采用DBR结构或者外腔结构,也可以获得相当窄的线宽。     

DFB光纤激光器

本文采用耦合波方程对DFB光纤激光器进行了理论的分析、计算,并在这些计算的基础上,成功研制出 DFB光纤激光器.     

Optimization of grating duty factor in gain-coupled DFB lasers withabsorptive grating-analysis and fabrication

Grating duty factor strongly affects the performance of gain-coupled (GC) distributed feedback (DFB) laser diodes with an absorptive grating. Through numerical analysis the authors have found an optimum value in the duty factor for their low threshold operation. The minimum threshold gain achievable at this optimum duty factor is found to be almost independent of the order of the grating. According to this prediction, the authors have fabricated GaAlAs/GaAs GC DFB lasers with a third-order absorptive grating where the grating duty factor has been made close to the theoretical optimum value. In 200-μm-long devices with both facets as-cleaved, low CW threshold current of 25 mA, external efficiency of 0.5 mW/mA, and SMSR as high as 45 dB have been obtained, which is qualitatively consistent with the analysis. High yield of single mode oscillation seems to be the result of the gain coupling     

Two-step laterally tapered spot-size converter 1.55-/spl mu/m DFB laser diode having a high slope efficiency

We demonstrate a two-step lateral tapered 1.55-/spl mu/m spot-size converter distributed feedback laser diode (SSC DFB LD) having slope efficiencies as high as 0.457 and 0.319 mW/mA measured at 25 /spl deg/C and 85 /spl deg/C, respectively. The SSC DFB LD fabricated by using a nonselective grating process has a double core waveguide structure including a planar buried heterostructure type active waveguide and a ridge type passive waveguide. The fabricated SSC DFB LD operates at 1.553-/spl mu/m wavelength and shows a far-field pattern in horizontal and vertical directions of 7.3/spl deg/ and 11.6/spl deg/, respectively.     

Analysis of radiation mode effects on oscillating properties of DFBlasers

The effects of radiation mode on the oscillating properties of distributed feedback (DFB) lasers with second-order corrugations are analyzed for designing a new type of DFB laser. A formulation based on the transfer matrix technique is applied to calculating Streifer's ζ-terms added to the coupled-wave equations. These terms represent the effects of radiation and evanescent modes. This formulation greatly simplifies the analysis of distributed resonance along multilayered waveguide structures with arbitrary-shaped second-order corrugations. The effects of vertical resonance are also incorporated into the formulation. Various types of DFB lasers with phase-shifted second-order corrugations are analyzed using this method. It is found that the phase shift and the blaze of the corrugations greatly affect the longitudinal mode selectivity. A new phase-shift DFB laser structure with two complementary blazing regions connected at the shift is proposed. It is demonstrated that this structure has small radiation loss resulting in low-threshold performance despite employing second-order corrugations     

A two-step laterally tapered 1.55-/spl mu/m SSC DFB laser fabricated by using a nonselective grating process

We demonstrate a two-step laterally tapered 1.55-/spl mu/m spot size converter distributed feedback laser diode (SSC DFB LD) having a planar buried heterostructure-type active waveguide and a ridge-type passive waveguide fabricated by using a nonselective grating process. Unlike conventional SSC DFB LDs, where a selective grating is employed, this SSC DFB LD employed a nonselective grating over the entire device region in order to make its fabrication much simpler than that of the conventional SSC DFB LDs. The two-step laterally tapered SSC is effective in removing an unwanted wavelength peak originating from the SSC section having a multiquantum well and a grating under it. The fabricated SSC DFB LD operates at 1.553-/spl mu/m wavelength and shows a far field pattern in horizontal and vertical directions of 13.4/spl deg/ and 19.5/spl deg/, respectively.     

Transfer-matrix formulation of spontaneous emission noise of DFBsemiconductor lasers

A unified formulation of the spontaneous emission noise in semiconductor DFB (distributed feedback) lasers is presented by using a transfer-matrix approach. Analytical expressions for the noise power per unit frequency bandwidth below threshold and the spontaneous emission rate into the lasing mode are obtained based on the Green's function method. Three DFB laser structures are analyzed: (1) a standard DFB structure with facet reflectivities, (2) a multisection DFB structure composed of n sections which models a phase-shifted DFB laser and a multielectrode (tunable) DFB laser, and (3) a periodic layered DFB structure which models a surface-emitting DFB laser. It is shown that the spontaneous emission noise of a complicated DFB laser structure can be calculated easily by the transfer matrix of each section of the structure and its derivative to frequency     

Continuously chirped DFB gratings by specially bent waveguides fortunable lasers

We have implemented and studied a new type of tunable multiple-section semiconductor distributed feedback (DFB) laser using tailored chirped DFB gratings. Arbitrarily and continuously chirped DFB gratings are defined by bent waveguides on homogeneous grating fields with ultrahigh spatial precision. The mathematical bending functions are optimized in this case to provide enlarged wavelength tuning ranges. We present the results of model calculations, the technological device realization and experimental results of the DFB laser characterization e.g. a tuning range of 5.5 nm without wavelength gaps and high side mode suppression ratio     

半导体相移分布反馈激光器模式及调制相应特性的研究--牛顿-矢量方法的应用

给出了适于分析DFB激光器稳态特性的数值模型和分析振幅及频率调制响应特性的解析模型.研究了3相移DFB激光器的调制响应特性,并提出了一种能够快速精确得到DFB激光器多个模式解的新方法--矢量牛顿法.该方法将稳定的矢量法与精确的牛顿法结合,保证了求解质量.实践表明该方法非常适合于求解高度非线性方程的多解问题.用此方法,研究了3相移及简单DFB激光器的纵向光子浓度分布,纵模及调制响应特性.结果表明,3相移DFB具有与简单的DFB激光器同样好的调制响应特性,相移的引入在一定程度上抑制了纵向空间烧孔效应,并且有利于DFB激光器的单模输出.     

Longitudinal spatial instability in symmetric semiconductor lasersdue to spatial hole burning

A novel type of longitudinal instability due to spatial hole burning in symmetric semiconductor laser structures (DFB lasers in particular) is examined analytically and numerically. It is shown that, at a certain output power, the gain and refractive index spatial distributions of the lasing mode become unstable. Above this output power, the modal gains and oscillation frequencies change drastically, which often causes multimode operation. A measure of the cavity stability is introduced and derived analytically for a Fabry-Perot and a single phase-shifted DFB laser. Results from numerical simulations of a multiple phase-shifted DFB laser are presented     

Analysis of oscillation characteristics of separated-electrode DFBlaser diodes

The oscillation characteristics of separated-electrode distributed feedback (DFB) lasers are analyzed by a numerical approach. In the calculation, coupled-mode equations are used including the carrier-density nonuniformity along the laser axis, which is introduced by the spatial hole burning and/or the nonuniform current injection. When the center section of a DFB laser, with three equally separated electrodes, is more strongly pumped than the side sections, high performance is achieved: the mode stability is maintained in the high-power state, resulting in a narrow linewidth. This is because the spatial hole burning is compensated by the larger current injection into the center region. The wide tunable range is also obtained under this bias condition     

Fabrication of GaAlAs/GaAs gain-coupled distributed feedback lasersusing the nature of MBE

Molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) regrowth on a corrugated surface is improved dramatically using a novel technique by which not only a clean surface can be obtained but also the shape of grating can be precisely controlled. A GaAlAs/GaAs multi-quantum well gain-coupled distributed feedback (DFB) laser with an absorptive grating is fabricated all by MBE for the first time. DFB mode oscillation within a range of at least 80°C is achieved. Stable single longitudinal mode oscillation is maintained up to 20 mW