A self-contained module injects seeds into a slave laser for applications
such as single mode or multimode injection seeding, master oscillator
power amplifiers, regenerative amplifiers, optical parametric
oscillators, Raman lasers, and LIDAR systems. The injection source
provides a continuous wavelength sweeping for master-slave resonance to
replace conventional cavity length control of the slave laser and phase
locking schemes. The inventive module can be operated remotely as a
separate unit or be packaged as a subsystem in the injection seeding
system. The salve can be used as it is. Modifications of the slave laser
and/or additional efforts are not needed.