Simultaneous self-injection locking of two VCSELs to a single whispering-gallery-mode microcavity
Lidan Jiang, Leilei Shi, Jing Luo, Qirui Gao, Miaoxin Bai, Tianyi Lan, Paul Ikechukwu Iroegbu, Laiyang Dang, Ligang Huang, Tao Zhu
Abstract
Simultaneous self-injection locking of two vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) to a single whispering-gallery-mode (WGM) microcavity is experimentally demonstrated. The linewidths of the two VCSELs are compressed from 3.5 MHz and 5 MHz to 20.9 kHz and 24.1 kHz, which is on the same order of magnitude as that of locking each VCSEL to the microcavity separately. Moreover, the frequency noises of the two simultaneously locked VCSELs are suppressed by more than 60 dB below the offset frequency of 100 kHz compared to that of the free-running VCSELs. The method demonstrated here might be used in the multi-wavelength laser array with low phase and frequency noises, especially the VCSELs with the unique architecture of a two-dimensional array.