We report, to the best of our knowledge, the first realization of a multi-wavelength distributed feedback (DFB) semiconductor laser array with an equivalent chirped grating profile based on equivalent chirp technology. All the lasers in the laser array have an identical grating period with an equivalent chirped grating structure, which are realized by nonuniform sampling of the gratings. Differ...

A methodology for treating the semiconductor laser as a current-controlled oscillator in an optical phase-lock loop is presented. The formalism is applied to phase demodulation of optical beams, reduction of phase noise by self-homodyning, and phase locking of a semiconductor laser array.

High power diode lasers have found increased applications in pumping of solid state or fiber laser systems for industrial, military and medical applications as well as direct material processing applications. The non-linearity of the near-field of emitters (or the so called “smile” effect) in a laser diode array poses significant challenges in optical coupling and beam shaping and has become on...

gamma camera is an important apparatus in nuclear medicine imaging. its detection part is consists of a scintillation detector with aheavy collimator. substitution of semiconductor detectors instead of scintillator in these cameras has been effectively studied. in this study, it is aimed to introduce a new design of p-n semiconductor detector array for nuclear medicine imaging. a p-n semiconduc...

We report the first experimental realization of four-channel DFB laser array with equivalent phase shift (EPS) based on the reconstruction-equivalent-chirp (REC) technique for CWDM systems. OCIS codes: (140.0140) Lasers and laser optics; (140.5960) Semiconductor lasers