Mirror-assisted tuning of laser stabilization via self-injection locking to WGM microresonator

TL;DR

This paper proposes a mirror-assisted self-injection locking scheme to enhance laser stabilization and power efficiency by tuning a drop-port mirror in a high-Q microresonator system, improving over traditional Rayleigh scattering methods.

Contribution

It introduces a novel scheme using a drop-port coupled mirror for self-injection locking, enabling better stabilization and power handling compared to conventional RRS-based methods.

Findings

Mirror-assisted feedback improves laser stabilization.

Tuning the drop-port mirror optimizes feedback level.

Enhanced power handling efficiency achieved.

Abstract

Self-injection locking is a dynamic phenomenon which provides passive stabilization of a lasers emission frequency via resonant optical feedback. The stabilization coefficient depends on the level of resonant feedback and quality factor of the external resonant structure creating the feedback. Usually a self-injection locked laser (SIL) involves barely tunable resonant Rayleigh scattering (RRS). In this work we study theoretically a scheme of a SIL to a high-Q microresonator with drop-port coupled mirror, in which optical feedback level is optimally adjusted by the tuning the drop-port mirror coupling. We show that the additional reflector can improve the laser stabilization and power handling efficiency if compared with the classic RRS-based scheme.