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OPTICA
Volume 7, Issue 9, Pages 1150-1153Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OPTICA.394311
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- Air Force Office of Scientific Research [FA9550-18-1-0353]
- Caltech Kavli Nanoscience Institute
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The linewidth of regenerative oscillators is enhanced by amplitude-phase coupling of the oscillator field [Phys. Rev. 160, 290 (1967)]. In laser oscillators, this effect is well known for its impact on semiconductor laser performance. Here, this coupling is studied in Brillouin lasers. Because their gain is parametric, the coupling and linewidth enhancement are shown to originate from phase mismatch. The theory is confirmed by measurement of linewidth in a microcavity Brillouin laser, and enhancements as large as 50 x are measured. The results show that pump wavelength and device temperature should be carefully selected and controlled to minimize linewidth. More generally, this work provides a new perspective on the linewidth enhancement effect. (C) 2020 Optical Society of America under the terms of the OSA Open Access Publishing Agreement
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