Integrated Optoelectronics Using Injection-Locked Vertical Cavity SurfaceEmitting Lasers

摘要

This Final Report, describes experimental, analytical, and numericalinvestigations of injection locking in a vertical cavity surface emitting laser for applications which benefit from optical control of microwaves. It concentrates on strong injection locking, where the imposition of the external optical signal not only locks the slave laser to the injected signal but also modifies the dynamic characteristics of the coupling between the optical field and the gain medium. We have found that a conventional coupled equation model identifies all of the key phenomena that we observe in our data. Our data shows the particular laser that we studied had a very strong noise spectra and a polarization instability which would have kept it from many optical control of microwaves applications.