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OPTICS EXPRESS
Volume 31, Issue 3, Pages 3857-3864Publisher
Optica Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1364/OE.472766
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Semiconductor lasers are highly sensitive to optical feedback. The transition from low-coherence radiation to high-coherence radiation in lasers with feedback can occur abruptly. Using the speckle technique, it has been shown that the transition varies from smooth to abrupt as the amount of feedback light increases.
Semiconductor lasers are very sensitive to optical feedback. Although it is well known that coherent feedback lowers the threshold of the laser, the characteristics of the transition from low-coherence radiation-dominated by spontaneous emission-below threshold to high -coherence radiation-dominated by stimulated emission-above threshold have not yet been investigated. Here we show experimentally that, in contrast to the transition that occurs in the solitary laser, in the laser with feedback the transition to high-coherence emission can occur abruptly. We use the speckle technique to show that the transition varies from smooth to abrupt as the amount of light fed back to the laser increases.(c) 2023 Optica Publishing Group under the terms of the Optica Open Access Publishing Agreement
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