Volume Holographic Grating Wavelength Stabilized Laser Diodes

Volume holographic gratings (VHGs) are the key components for producing laser diodes (LDs) with a temperature-stabilized wavelength and narrowed linewidth. We review the unique characteristics of these gratings that make them useful for this application as well as various alternative approaches of stabilizing LDs and their performance.

[1]  B. Ventrudo,et al.  Wavelength and intensity stabilisation of 980 nm diode lasers coupled to fibre Bragg gratings , 1994 .

[2]  Govind P. Agrawal,et al.  Line narrowing in a single-mode injection laser due to external optical feedback , 1984 .

[3]  C. Harder,et al.  L-I characteristics of fiber Bragg grating stabilized 980-nm pump lasers , 2001, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters.

[4]  W. Bragg,et al.  The X-Ray Microscope , 1942, Nature.

[5]  L. Glebov,et al.  High-efficiency bragg gratings in photothermorefractive glass. , 1999, Applied optics.

[6]  D. Lenstra,et al.  Coherence collapse in single-mode semiconductor lasers due to optical feedback , 1985, IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics.

[7]  E. D. Melnik,et al.  Wavelength stabilization and spectrum narrowing of high-power multimode laser diodes and arrays by use of volume Bragg gratings. , 2004, Optics letters.

[8]  M. V. Romalis.  Narrowing of high power diode laser arrays using reflection feedback from an etalon , 2000 .

[9]  A. M. Cox,et al.  Crystallization‐resistant photorefractive polymer composite with high diffraction efficiency and reproducibility , 1996 .

[10]  J. J. Amodei,et al.  HOLOGRAPHIC PATTERN FIXING IN ELECTRO‐OPTIC CRYSTALS , 1971 .

[11]  J. Goodman.  Introduction to Fourier optics , 1969 .

[12]  Hirofumi Kan,et al.  Effective bandwidth reduction for a high-power laser-diode array by an external-cavity technique. , 2005, Optics letters.

[13]  Intensity noise suppression and modulation characteristics of a laser diode coupled to an external cavity , 1984 .

[14]  K. Buse,et al.  Origin Of Thermal Fixing In Photorefractive Lithium Niobate Crystals , 1997, CLEO '97., Summaries of Papers Presented at the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics.

[15]  Thomas G. Walker,et al.  Frequency-narrowed external-cavity diode-laser-array bar. , 2000, Optics letters.

[16]  A Yariv,et al.  Holographic fixing, readout, and storage dynamics in photorefractive materials. , 1995, Optics letters.

[17]  H. Kogelnik.  Coupled wave theory for thick hologram gratings , 1969 .

[18]  R. Plastow,et al.  Single-mode operation of 1.55 μm semiconductor lasers using a volume holographic grating , 1985 .

[19]  R. Lang,et al.  External optical feedback effects on semiconductor injection laser properties , 1980 .

[20]  Rob Williamson.  Advanced pump diodes improve laser-system performance , 2005 .

[21]  R. Badii,et al.  Dynamics of multimode diode lasers with strong, frequency-selective optical feedback. , 2003, Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics.