TUNABLE LASERS: TUNABLE SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS AND TUNABLE DIODE LASERS
Introduction to Multiple-Prism Grating Oscillator Configurations for Tunable Semiconductor, and/or Diode, Lasers
F. J. Duarte, Multiple-prism grating designs tune diode lasers, Laser Focus
World 29 (2), 103-109 (1993).
Closed-cavity multiple-prism near grazing-incidence grating configuration for tunable semiconductor lasers as described in the 1993 Laser Focus World article. Closed-cavity configurations offer lower noise and enhanced protection from unwanted external optical feedback.
P. Zorabedian, Characteristics of a grating-external-cavity semiconductor laser containing intracavity prism beam expanders, J. Lightwave Tech. 10, 330-335 (1992).
This paper demonstrates linewidths of 100 kHz, tunable in the 1255-1335 nm range, using multiple-prism grating configurations.
Early Papers on External-Cavity Semiconductor Lasers
C. Voumard, External cavity controlled 32 MHz narrowband CW GaAlAs-diode lasers, Opt. Lett. 1, 61-63 (1977).
M. W. Fleming and A. Mooradian, Spectral characteristics of external-cavity controlled semiconductor lasers, IEEE J. Quantum Electron. QE-17, 44-59 (1981).
E. M. Belenov et al., Methods of narrowing the emission line of an injection laser, Sov. J. Quantum Electron. 13, 792-798 (1983).
Book Chapters on External Cavity Semiconductor, and/or Diode, Lasers
F. J. Duarte, Dispersive external cavity semiconductor lasers, in Tunable
Laser Applications, F. J. Duarte (Ed.) (Marcel Dekker, New York, 1995)
Chapter 3.
F. J. Duarte, Narrow-linewidth laser oscillators and intracavity dispersion, in Tunable
Lasers Handbook, F. J. Duarte (Ed.) (Academic, New York, 1995) Chapter 2.
P. Zorabedian, Tunable external cavity semiconductor lasers, in Tunable
Lasers Handbook, F. J. Duarte (Ed.) (Academic, New York, 1995) Chapter 8.
R. W. Fox, L. Hollberg, and A. S. Zibrov, Semiconductor diode lasers, in
Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics: Electromagnetic Radiation, F. B.
Dunning and R. G. Hulet (Eds.) (Academic, New York, 1997) Chapter 4.
D. Anthon et al., External cavity diode lasers tuned with silicom MEMS, in Technical Digest Optical Fiber Communications Conference (Optical Society
of America, Washington, DC, 2002) Paper TuO7.
L. Y. Pang, J. G. Fujimoto, and E. S. Kintzer, Ultrashort-pulse generation from high-power diode arrays by using intracavity optical nonlinearities, Opt. Lett. 17, 1599-1601 (1992).
P. J. Delfyett, L. Florez, N. Stoffel, T. Gmitter, N. Andreadakis, G. Alphonse, and W. Ceislik, 200 fs optical pulse generation and intracavity pulse evolution in a hybrid mode-locked semiconductor diode-laser/amplifier system, Opt. Lett. 17, 670–672 (1992).
R. A. Salvatore, T. Schrans, and A. Yariv, Wavelength tunable source of subpicosecond pulses from CW passively mode-locked two-section multiple-quantum-well laser, IEEE Photo. Tech. Lett. 5, 756–758 (1993).
Doppler-Free Spectroscopy and Laser Isotope Separation (LIS) Using Tunable
Semiconductor, and/or Diode, Lasers
I. E. Olivares, A. E. Duarte, T. Lokajczyk, A. Dinklage, and F. J. Duarte,
Doppler-
free spectroscopy and collisional studies with tunable diode lasers
of lithium isotopes
in a heat pipe oven, J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 15, 1932-1939 (1998).
I. E. Olivares, A. E. Duarte, E. A. Saravia, and F. J. Duarte, Lithium
isotope separation with tunable diode lasers, Appl. Opt. 41, 2973-2977
(2002).
W. DeGraffenreid and C. J. Sansonetti, 2 2S1/2 - 4 2S1/2 transition of
atomic lithium by Doppler-free two-photon spectroscopy, Phys. Rev. A 67,
012509 (2003).
H. Park, D. H. Kwon, and Y. Rhee, High-resolution spectroscopy of Sm I
performed with an extended-cavity diode laser, J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 21,
1250-1254 (2004).