Frequency comb interband cascade laser stabilization by time-delayed optical self-injection

Dominik Auth; Mahmood Bagheri; Clifford Frez; Chadwick L. Canedy; Igor Vurgaftman; Jerry R. Meyer; Stefan Breuer

doi:10.1117/12.2547154

24 February 2020 Frequency comb interband cascade laser stabilization by time-delayed optical self-injection

Dominik Auth, Mahmood Bagheri, Clifford Frez, Chadwick L. Canedy, Igor Vurgaftman, Jerry R. Meyer, Stefan Breuer

Proceedings Volume 11301, Novel In-Plane Semiconductor Lasers XIX; 113011B (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2547154
Event: SPIE OPTO, 2020, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Interband cascade laser (ICL) optical frequency combs are promising midwave infrared sources for dual comb spectroscopy probing the strong fundamental absorption lines of numerous chemical and biological agents. In this work, a 4-mm-long ICL frequency comb emitting at 3.3 μm was operated by single-cavity optical self-injection. The experiments employing a free-space optical self-injection length of 1.1m with fine-delay control demonstrated a tuning range of 119MHz around the free-running intermode beat frequency of 9.58 GHz. For resonant fine-delay the line width of the intermode beat frequency was reduced to 390 kHz, what is an improvement by a factor of 40 in comparison to the solitary laser line width.

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Dominik Auth, Mahmood Bagheri, Clifford Frez, Chadwick L. Canedy, Igor Vurgaftman, Jerry R. Meyer, and Stefan Breuer "Frequency comb interband cascade laser stabilization by time-delayed optical self-injection", Proc. SPIE 11301, Novel In-Plane Semiconductor Lasers XIX, 113011B (24 February 2020); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2547154

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