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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 22, 1984
Filed:
Aug. 23, 1982
Applicant:
Inventor:
John A Copeland, Fair Haven, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated, Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01S / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
372 32 ; 372 38 ; 372 44 ;
Abstract
Single mode lasers are advantageously stabilized in order to prevent a side mode from growing to a level where partition noise effects degrade high speed performance. To obtain such spectral stability, the powers in the two adjacent side modes are measured, and the operating temperature of the laser varied in response to changes in their relative powers. Optimally, the gain curve peak is made to coincide with the preferred cavity mode.