Travelling-wave analysis of extended cavity diode lasers

Abstract

We report results of numerical simulations of the dynamic properties of singletransverse mode diode lasers subject to an external optical feedback provided by a volume holographic Bragg grating. We use the traveling-wave model for the simulation and analysis of the nonlinear dynamics of the considered devices. We show that the numerical results obtained for a sample device are in a good agreement with the experiment. We investigate the influence of relevant device parameters, such as front and rear facet reflectivities and intra-cavity transmission losses on the laser behaviour.