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.     

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.     

DFB光纤激光器中相移光栅优化分析

相移光栅在光通信领域具有较高的应用价值,文中用传输矩阵法,详细分析了相移光栅中相移量,折射率调制深度,相移位置及光栅长度对相移光栅的影响,并结合相移光栅在DFB光纤激光器中的应用进行了分析。分析表明,实际制作DFB光纤激光器时,应根据实际应用场合,对相移光栅的相关参数进行设计,从而提高光纤激光器性能。     

半导体激光器调制响应的速率方程小信号近似法研究

速率方程是研究半导体激光器瞬态过程的理论工具。为了能对实际中各种调制响应进行分析,采用小信号近似法求解了在任意调制信号下半导体激光器的速率方程。得到了任意调制信号下半导体激光器的速率方程的实值解析解,并根据得出的实值解析解分析了半导体激光器的一些调制响应特性,给出了一个调制信号为矩形脉冲电流的具体实例。最后研究并得出了小信号近似法准确的严格条件。根据一些半导体激光器的实际参数,给出了该条件在某些情况下的近似表达。     

分布式反馈激光器调制特性研究

为了深入了解分布式反馈激光器（DFB）的发光机理与调制特性,通过理论分析和实验对DFB的调谐特性进行了研究。得到FITEL和JDS Uniphase两款激光器调制电流与输出中心波长的对应关系和两种确定系数不同的拟合方程,证明了这两款DFB激光器在实际应用中存在非线性关系。结果表明,FITELFRL15DCWD-A82激光器的3dB带宽与驱动电流幅值关系为3.715pm/mA;该调制结果优化了该激光器的可用相干长度,并验证了驱动信号频率变化不影响3dB光谱宽度。对DFB激光器低频调制特性的定量分析结果可为相干检测系统驱动电路设计提供实验依据。     

基于光纤DFB激光器的高分辨折射率传感器

分析一种基于腐蚀相移DFB激光器的高分辨率折射率传感器。外界折射率通过改变腐蚀DFB激光器的相移影响激光器的输出特性。通过详细分析相移和增益对激光输出特性的影响,获得了相移激光输出波长的关系。根据激光器基模和高阶模波长差对温度的自补偿特性,设计了高分辨率的折射率传感器。理论上获得了该传感方案在激光线宽为100 kHz时,折射率传感分辨率高达10-7数量级。     

基于CPM-FBG的单频窄线宽DFB光纤激光器

利用电弧放电对光纤Bragg光栅(FBG)折射率的调制作用,提出了基于折射率周期调制(CPM)FBG的单频窄线宽分布反馈(DFB)光纤激光器方案。建立了CPM-FBG的数学模型并进行了仿真,验证了CPM-FBG的相移光栅特性;在掺铒光纤(EDF)上制作出CPM-FBG,形成了DFB单频窄线宽光纤激光器,激光器阈值功率为25.4mW,3dB线宽为805Hz,边摸抑制比大于48.8dB。     

甲烷气体近红外光声光谱及痕量探测技术研究

介绍了一种基于1.653μm分布反馈式(DFB)半导体激光器的共振光声光谱系统.该系统具有结构简单、操作方便、价格低廉等优点.对光声光谱系统的响应特性进行了实验研究.对光声光谱系统进行振幅调制和波长调制两种方法进行了实验对比研究.并用此系统对室外空气中的甲烷(CH<,4>)进行了测量,探测灵敏度可达100 ppbv.     

基于直接调制和外调制的高速半导体激光光源

直接调制和外调制的半导体激光光源在现代光纤通信系统中有着重要的应用。首先介绍了应用于10 Gb/s接入网系统的直接调制AlGaInAs多量子阱DFB激光器。由于AlGaInAs量子阱的导带不连续性较大,因此基于该材料的半导体激光器具有良好的温度特性,其特征温度达到了88 K。同时,该直接调制激光器的3 dB小信号调制响应带宽超过15 GHz。随后介绍面向40 Gb/s干线传输系统的高速DFB激光器/EA调制器集成光源。该集成光源采用同一外延层集成方案,并采用Al2O3高速微波热沉进行了管芯级封装,在3 V反向偏压下获得大于13 dB的静态消光比,3 dB小信号调制带宽超过40 GHz。     

DFB激光器调制特性ANN建模与设计

通过研究分布反馈式(DFB)激光器调制特性的速率方程，推导了调制特性的解析表达式，建立了调制特性神经网络(ANN)模型，计算机仿真与理论分析的结果相吻合。用此模型对激光器结构进行了仿真设计，得到的结果对激光器的生产设计具有重要的指导意义。     

Dynamic properties of push-pull DFB semiconductor lasers

Using the spatially dependent multimode rate equations, we present a systematic study of small-signal dynamics of push-pull DFB lasers. The various spatial effects such as the longitudinal spatial hole burning, nonlinear gain compression, side-mode contribution, and push-pull modulation are all analyzed in a self-consistent manner. With the closed form expressions for the AM and FM responses, we show explicitly that the resonance frequency and the first cut-off frequency of push-pull DFB lasers are determined by the frequency spacing and the threshold gain difference between the lasing mode and its closest antisymmetric side mode, respectively. Numerical results reveal that a high modulation speed with a very low frequency chirp can be achieved with the push-pull DFB lasers     

Stability and dynamic properties of multi-electrode laser diodesusing a Green's function approach

In DFB (distributed feedback) lasers, the shape of the longitudinal intensity and carrier density distributions changes above threshold as a result of spatial hole burning. The longitudinally distributed coupling of spontaneous emission into the lasing mode also plays an important role for the noise properties. The authors demonstrate how both effects can be included in a dynamic analysis. They extend their previously developed theory for multielectrode lasers to enable calculation of stability properties as well as small-signal modulation responses and noise spectra. The theory is used to study global and local stability of the stationary solutions (modes). The numerical results for several laser structures are presented. It is shown that symmetric DFB lasers are likely to exhibit pitchfork bifurcations in their static tuning characteristics as the current is increased. The authors discuss how the presence or proximity of such instabilities can affect the modulation and noise properties, and in particular, the spectral linewidth     

Static and dynamic simulation for ridge-waveguide MQW DFB lasers

An efficient and versatile computer-aided simulator for the design and analysis of ridge-waveguide (RWG) multiple-quantum-well (MQW) distributed-feedback (DFB) lasers has been developed and is presented. This simulator combines spectral index method and Green's function-based transfer-matrix method (TMM) to deal with the transverse RWG MQW structure and longitudinal DFB structure, respectively. It is capable of simulating both static and dynamic behaviors for a variety of RWG MQW DFB lasers. The major difference from most of the existing models and analyses is that this simulator is capable of linking important device characteristics with practical material and geometrical parameters directly and self-consistently. For instance, the effects of lateral ridge width, vertical MQW layers and longitudinal nonuniformity are all explicitly included in the simulator. important laser characteristics, such as L-I curve, effective linewidth enchancement factor, static lasing wavelength shift, spectral linewidth, facet-power spectrum, AM and FM modulation responses, dynamic-wavelength chirping, as well as longitudinal photon and carrier distribution, can be predicted based on material and waveguide parameters. Therefore, this simulator may be used as an efficient and versatile tool for the systematic exploitation and optimization of a wide range of practical RWG MQW DFB lasers. Analysis of a λ/4 shifted SCH RWG MQW DFB laser is performed to illustrate the capability of this simulator     

Analytical formulas for modulation responses of semiconductor DFBlasers

Analytical expressions for the modulation responses of semiconductor DFB lasers are derived from a rigorous standing-wave rate equation formulations. With proper approximations, these expressions are reduced to simple and insightful formulas, similar to those obtained from the conventional rate equations. Salient features of the DFB lasers, such as complex-couplings, phase-shifts, facet conditions, as well as variations of carrier and photon densities along the cavity caused by the longitudinal hole-burning, are considered in these approximate formulas. It is demonstrated that the modulation responses, predicted by the simple formulas are in excellent agreement with the exact solutions     

增镀光学薄膜改善DFB激光器的光谱特性

利用增镀光学薄膜的方法,有效地将原来处于双模工作的１．３μｍＤＦＢ激光器变为单模工作的激光器．选择的增镀膜层起到了抑制边模的作用．从而改变了激光器的模式特性．实验表明,增镀光学薄膜技术可望成为改善ＤＦＢ激光器单模成品率的一种辅助方法     

Static and dynamic properties of InGaAsP-InP distributed feedbacklasers-a detailed comparison between experiment and theory

We have investigated the static and dynamic characteristics of phase shifted InGaAsP-InP DFB lasers mainly focusing on a comprehensive comparison between experimental results and numerical simulations. Experimental data of InGaAsP-InP mushroom type DFB lasers have been recorded, such as optical spectra, variations of the mode wavelengths with continuous and pulsed injection current, side mode suppression ratio, relative intensity noise, small signal amplitude modulation, and the transient response to 10 and 15 Gb/s large signal modulation. The theoretical model calculations in this paper are based on the transfer matrix method in combination with a rate equation analysis and take into account longitudinal mode spatial hole burning which is modified by the inhomogeneous current injection resulting from the axially varying Fermi voltage in both the static and the dynamic case. A good agreement between the experimental data and the theoretical simulations has been obtained extracting a set of parameters which consistently describes the measurements of our devices     

Measurement of mode partition in DFB lasers

Some DFB (distributed feedback) laser diodes have a satellite mode beside a main DFB mode even if FP modes are suppressed. In this paper, the mode partition noise is presented for several DFB lasers operating in multilongitudinal modes. The results show that under modulation at 140 Mbit/s, the mode partition coefficient k²of multimode DFB lasers is very small and at most 0.02 while that of FP lasers biased at the threshold level is 0.03 to 0.12. The numerical evaluation of the mode partition effect in two-mode DFB lasers suggests that a 20- dB suppression of the satellite mode power is enough to achieve a repeater spacing of over 100 km in the 280 Mbit/s fiber-optic transmission system with less than 0.1-dB power penalty.     

Gain-coupled DFB lasers versus index-coupled and phase shifted DFBlasers: a comparison based on spatial hole burning corrected yield

A statistical yield analysis is presented for gain- and index-coupled distributed feedback (DFB) laser structures, allowing a comparison of their single longitudinal mode (SLM) yield capabilities. For the yield calculations, the threshold gain difference and the longitudinal spatial hole burning (SHB) are taken into account. By comparing the experimental and theoretical yield of index-coupled DFB lasers, the significance of SHB for correct yield predictions is illustrated. For the purpose of comparison, yield calculations for various λ/4-shifted DFB lasers (with low facet reflectivities) are presented. The most emphasis, however, is on partly gain-coupled DFB lasers. Estimations of practical gain coupling coefficient values for gain and for loss gratings are discussed     

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