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Recent advances in laser self-injection locking to high-Q microresonators

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FRONTIERS OF PHYSICS
卷 18, 期 2, 页码 -

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HIGHER EDUCATION PRESS
DOI: 10.1007/s11467-022-1245-3

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self-injection locking; laser stabilization; microresonator; nonlinearity; single-frequency lasing; multi-frequency lasing

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The stabilization and manipulation of laser frequency using an external cavity is widely used in fundamental research and laser applications. The self-injection locking effect can significantly reduce laser linewidth and noise by locking the laser emission frequency to the cavity mode. This method paves the way for high-performance, compact, and cost-effective semiconductor lasers, and it also enables the generation of both pulse and frequency combs in the same microresonator using integrated photonics technology.
The stabilization and manipulation of laser frequency by means of an external cavity are nearly ubiquitously used in fundamental research and laser applications. While most of the laser light transmits through the cavity, in the presence of some back-scattered light from the cavity to the laser, the self-injection locking effect can take place, which locks the laser emission frequency to the cavity mode of similar frequency. The self-injection locking leads to dramatic reduction of laser linewidth and noise. Using this approach, a common semiconductor laser locked to an ultrahigh-Q microresonator can obtain sub-Hertz linewidth, on par with state-of-the-art fiber lasers. Therefore it paves the way to manufacture high-performance semiconductor lasers with reduced footprint and cost. Moreover, with high laser power, the optical nonlinearity of the microresonator drastically changes the laser dynamics, offering routes for simultaneous pulse and frequency comb generation in the same microresonator. Particularly, integrated photonics technology, enabling components fabricated via semiconductor CMOS process, has brought increasing and extending interest to laser manufacturing using this method. In this article, we present a comprehensive tutorial on analytical and numerical methods of laser self-injection locking, as well a review of most recent theoretical and experimental achievements.

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