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Figure 3.12: <strong>The</strong> slave lasers are injected using the rejection port <strong>of</strong> the optical<br />

isolator protecting each laser from back reflections.<br />

beam emerges from the optical isolator with the same polarization as the slave<br />

laser output. A more detailed description <strong>of</strong> the seeding procedure can be<br />

found in reference [83].<br />

Injection locking can be understood by considering free-running laser<br />

diodes to be regenerative amplifiers with a natural oscillation frequency ω0<br />

and output power I0. If a beam <strong>of</strong> intensity I1 is seeded into this amplifier,<br />

its intensity at the output will be |˜g(ω1)| 2 I1, where ˜g(ω1) is the frequency<br />

dependent gain <strong>of</strong> the laser medium. If ω0 (which we control with temperature<br />

and the injection current) is close to ω1 then the value <strong>of</strong> |˜g(ω1)| 2 I1 approaches<br />

I0. In this limit the amplified signal begins to steal enough gain from the lasing<br />

medium that the free-running laser oscillation dies out. Much more detail on<br />

this process can be found in [93].<br />

<strong>The</strong> distribution <strong>of</strong> the three slave lasers is discussed in the next several<br />

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