Energy Variations in Optical Pulses from Gain-Switched AlGaAs Diode Lasers

Hawkins, R. T.; Goll, J.H.; Anheier, Norman C.

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-72970-6_42

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“…Hence, Eqs. (4) - (8) may be used to explore the sensitivity of the output parameters as a function of deviations in the input due to external technical noise. One general conclusion that may be drawn from this analysis is that the stability of each of these quantities increases as the pumping level increases.…”

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Optimization of gain-switched diode lasers for high-speed fiber optics

MacFarlane

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1991

SPIE Proceedings

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We study the output of a gain switched diode laser as a function of the pumping parameters. Experimentally we look at the output pulse shape, height and width, timing conditions and stability. Theoretically, we calculate the conditions under which a gain switched diode laser is optimized with respect to the width of the injection current pump pulse. We find, for both biased and unbiased operations, that a current pulse of approximately 20 psec corresponds to a Dirac delta function, a situation which yields the shortest, most intense output pulses. A sensitivity analysis performed on an analytic distillation of the model gives us design considerations for diode lasers with improved stability.

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