Lan Yu-Ping, Pan Ru-Pin, Pan Ci-Ling
Institute of Electro-Optical Engineering and Department of Electrophysics, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu 30010, Taiwan.
Opt Lett. 2004 Mar 1;29(5):510-2. doi: 10.1364/ol.29.000510.
A planar nematic liquid crystal (NLC) cell is incorporated into a Littman-type external cavity as the wavelength-tuning device for a semiconductor laser diode. By varying the driving voltage of the NLC cell and laser diode bias current simultaneously, we demonstrate single-mode oscillation and mode-hop-free tuning over 19.2 GHz at 775 nm. The result is in good agreement with the theoretical predictions.