Chinese Journal of Lasers, Volume. 46, Issue 8, 0801010(2019)

Frequency Compensation Based Pump Laser Drive Circuit with High Stability

Tao Wu1,2, Tao Pang1、*, Yuquan Tang1,3, Shuang Yang1, Bo Shi1,2, Jun Li1, and Fengzhong Dong1,2
Author Affiliations
  • 1 Anhui Provincial Key Laboratory of Photonics Devices and Materials, Anhui Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics,Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, Anhui 230031, China
  • 2 University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
  • 3 Reliability Physics and Application Technology of Electronic Component Laboratory,Guangzhou, Guangdong 510610, China
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    A pump laser drive circuit with high precision and high stability is designed based on frequency compensation technique. The laser can be operated in two modes: automatic current control (ACC) and automatic power control (APC). The drive circuit considers the current adjustment of the deep negative feedback system as the inner loop and the optical power feedback adjustment as the outer loop. Simultaneously, by combining first-order artificial analysis and Tina SPICE simulation, the frequency compensation of the loop is performed to realize high stability control of the pump laser. The drive chip is controlled via analog proportion-integration-differentiation technology to regulate the current of a thermoelectric cooler. The designed drive circuit supplies continuously adjusted output current in ACC mode; it has the following functions: slow start, reverse current prevention, and over-current protection. In ACC mode, the long-term stability of the output current reaches 0.04%. In APC mode, the long-term stability of the laser output power is better than 0.3%, the control linearity reaches 0.9999,and the long-term stability of the temperature control is better than 0.0928%. The experimental results demonstrate that this driving system has high security, high stability, and is easy to use.

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    Tao Wu, Tao Pang, Yuquan Tang, Shuang Yang, Bo Shi, Jun Li, Fengzhong Dong. Frequency Compensation Based Pump Laser Drive Circuit with High Stability[J]. Chinese Journal of Lasers, 2019, 46(8): 0801010

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    Paper Information

    Category: laser devices and laser physics

    Received: Mar. 26, 2019

    Accepted: Apr. 17, 2019

    Published Online: Aug. 13, 2019

    The Author Email: Pang Tao (bumianren1982@aiofm.ac.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/CJL201946.0801010

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