CW Emission and Self-Pulsing in a III-V/SiN Hybrid Laser With Narrow Band Mirror

Abstract

We report on how external cavity III-V/SiN hybrid lasers operate in regimes of ultra-damped relaxation oscillations or in CW unstable dynamical regimes (self-pulsing or approaching turbulence) as a consequence of mirror dispersion, non-zero linewidth enhancement factor, and four-wave mixing in the gain medium. The impact of the dispersive mirror bandwidth and different mirror effective lengths on the laser tolerance to external optical feedback is also discussed.

Keywords

• Four wave mixing
• modeling
• nonlinear optical effects in semiconductors
• optical interconnects
• semiconductor lasers