| Integrated optics is the ultimate solution for reducing the manufacturing and operational costs of optical circuits. The growing demand for high-bandwidth communication between integrated circuits has also initiated the interest in chipscale integrated optical circuits. Microcavity lasers as an indispensable part of such circuits, have been the subject of intensive research during the past two decades. There have been a lot of speculations on the dynamic properties of these lasers in the past, but to date, there has not been a comprehensive study and analysis of those properties on these lasers. Lack of experimental data providing enough feedback to the theories, has prevented the existing theories to mature. The goal of this thesis is to understand the modulation response and linewidth properties of these lasers through combining our experiments with the theory. |
