TY - JOUR

T1 - Optical Injection Effects in Nanolasers

AU - Sattar, Z.A.

AU - Kamel, N.A.

AU - Shore, K.A.

PY - 2016/2

Y1 - 2016/2

N2 - The response of nanolasers subject to optical injection has been analyzed. Calculations have been performed using rate equations, which include the Purcell cavity-enhanced spontaneous emission factor F and the spontaneous emission coupling factor β. In the analysis, the influence of F and β is evaluated for varying the injection strength and frequency detuning between the master and slave laser. It is observed that, in general, increased F and β increases the stable locking region and have only a few regions of dynamic instability as compared with conventional semiconductor lasers over a large frequency detuning. It is also found that for larger F, the modulation bandwidths of 90 GHz can be achieved.

AB - The response of nanolasers subject to optical injection has been analyzed. Calculations have been performed using rate equations, which include the Purcell cavity-enhanced spontaneous emission factor F and the spontaneous emission coupling factor β. In the analysis, the influence of F and β is evaluated for varying the injection strength and frequency detuning between the master and slave laser. It is observed that, in general, increased F and β increases the stable locking region and have only a few regions of dynamic instability as compared with conventional semiconductor lasers over a large frequency detuning. It is also found that for larger F, the modulation bandwidths of 90 GHz can be achieved.

U2 - 10.1109/JQE.2015.2512591

DO - 10.1109/JQE.2015.2512591

M3 - Article

VL - 52

JO - IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

JF - IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

SN - 0018-9197

IS - 2

ER -