Rate equation analysis of dynamic response in strongly injection-locked semiconductor microring lasers

A novel optical injection-locking scheme for modulation bandwidth enhancement is proposed, involving a distributed Bragg reflector master laser monolithically integrated with a strongly injection-locked unidirectional microring laser. Enhanced high-speed performance of the proposed scheme is confirmed in numerical modeling by comparing it with the scheme where weak optical injection is provided by a waveguide directional coupler adjacent to the ring laser.

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