Phase Conjugate Injection Locking of Laser Diode Arrays
Abstract
This goal of this project is to produce a high-brightness, narrow-frequency light beam from a semiconductor laser array. We used a mutually-pumped phase conjugator to couple a single-frequency master laser into a high-power diode laser array. This injected light narrowed the frequency bandwidth of the laser array's output beam. Tuning the master laser (by adjusting its current or its temperature) then smoothly tuned the laser array, while the output beam remained diffraction limited. We compared the performance of the four types of mutually-pumped phase conjugators for injecting light into a laser array. We also invented a new technique for detecting domains hidden in photorefractive crystals. We also measured the phase of the light produced by frequency doubling in a self-phase matched optical fiber. We also measured the anisotropy of the mobility of holes in barium titanate crystals. We found that the drift mobility perpendicular to the crystal's c-axis is 40 times that along the c-axis. We also measured the calibrated small-signal gain spectrum, over a range of eight orders of magnitude, of a single-mode, flared semiconductor amplifier. We found that the detailed-balance theory of semiconductor lasers theory is not consistent with our data. We used a self-pumped phase conjugator to determine a key calibration constant in our experiments.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jun 12, 1998
- Accession Number
- ADA351694
Entities
People
- Jack Feinberg
Organizations
- University of Southern California