Strong dependence of the Linewidth Enhancement Factor onto an externally injected optical signal for locked Fabry-Perot laser diodes

Abstract

Injection-locking is based on the fact that the laser can be locked onto the frequency and the phase of an external injected optical signal. When a Fabry-Perot laser diode (FP LD) is locked onto a single-mode signal, its operation becomes single-mode. The injection-locked FP LD (IL-FP LD) has been proposed as a standard component for optical access network [1]. In this paper, we propose to study the Linewidth Enhancement Factor (LEF) of IL-FP LD and its dependence onto the injection parameters.