The field of optically pumped planar waveguide lasers has seen a rapid development over
the last two decades driven by the requirements of a range of applications. This sustained …

This paper reviews recent progress in the field of optically pumped rare-earth-doped
channel waveguide lasers, with a focus on operation utilizing distributed-feedback …

Integrated Microwave photonics (IMWP) signal processing using Photonic Integrated
Circuits (PICs) has attracted a great deal of attention in recent years as an enabling …

The residual cavity-pulling effect limits further narrowing of linewidth in dual-wavelength
(DW) good-bad-cavity active optical clocks (AOCs). In this paper, we for the first time …

This paper reviews the recent developments in rare-earth-ion-doped channel waveguide
lasers. Optical gain in rare-earth-ion-doped waveguides has been increased by two orders …

Monte Carlo markovian models of a dual-mode semiconductor laser with quantum well (QW)
or quantum dot (QD) active regions are proposed. Accounting for carriers and photons as …

The research presented in this thesis concerns the investigation and development of
Bragggrating-based integrated cavities for the rare-earth-ion-doped Al2O3 (aluminium …

Rare-earth-ion-doped materials are of high interest as amplifiers and lasers in integrated
optics. Their longer excited-state lifetimes and the weaker refractive-index change …

The generation by optical injection locking of spectrally unadulterated microwave signals
using waveguide based external cavity semiconductor lasers (WECSL) is demonstrated. A …

In this paper, a complete system analysis of photonic local carrier generation technique has
been investigated. The generated carrier is potentially suitable to replace the existing …