Reciprocity principle and nonequivalence of counterpropagating modes in whistle-geometry ring lasers

Hemashilpa Kalagara; Fei-Hung Chu; Gennady A. Smolyakov; Marek Osiński

doi:10.1117/12.2214602

22 March 2016 Reciprocity principle and nonequivalence of counterpropagating modes in whistle-geometry ring lasers

Hemashilpa Kalagara, Fei-Hung Chu, Gennady A. Smolyakov, Marek Osiński

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Proceedings Volume 9742, Physics and Simulation of Optoelectronic Devices XXIV; 974213 (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2214602
Event: SPIE OPTO, 2016, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Greatly enhanced high-speed modulation performance has been recently predicted in numerical calculations for a novel injection-locking scheme involving a distributed Bragg reflector master laser monolithically integrated with a unidirectional whistle-geometry semiconductor micro ring laser. In this work, we confirm the unidirectionality of the whistle-geometry configuration through rigorous three-dimensional finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) simulation by showing a strong asymmetry in photon lifetimes between the two counter propagating modes. At the same time, we explain why this result does not violate the Helmholtz reciprocity principle.

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Hemashilpa Kalagara, Fei-Hung Chu, Gennady A. Smolyakov, and Marek Osiński "Reciprocity principle and nonequivalence of counterpropagating modes in whistle-geometry ring lasers", Proc. SPIE 9742, Physics and Simulation of Optoelectronic Devices XXIV, 974213 (22 March 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2214602

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