Improved intrinsic dynamic distortions in directly modulated semiconductor lasers by optical injection locking

Author

Meng, Xue Jun ; Chau, Tai ; Wu, Ming C.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., California Univ., Los Angeles, CA, USA

Volume

47

Issue

7

fYear

1999

fDate

7/1/1999 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1172

Lastpage

1176

Abstract

The effects of optical injection locking on the nonlinear distortions of directly modulated semiconductor distributed feedback (DFB) lasers are investigated experimentally. The second harmonic distortion (SHD) and third harmonic distortion (THD), as well as the third-order intermodulation distortion (IMD3), are measured as functions of modulation frequency for both the free-running and injection-locked lasers. Under strong injection locking with -8-dB injection ratio, the SHD and THD of the DFB laser have been suppressed by 15 dB from 2 to 4 GHz. Moreover, nearly 15-dB reduction in IMD3 has been observed from 1.4 to 3.0 GHz with the same injection conditions. We also found that the injection locking is not effective in reducing the low-frequency distortions

Keywords

distributed feedback lasers; harmonic distortion; intermodulation distortion; optical modulation; semiconductor lasers; 1.4 to 3.0 GHz; 2 to 4 GHz; SHD; THD; directly modulated semiconductor lasers; distributed feedback lasers; free-running lasers; injection conditions; injection ratio; intrinsic dynamic distortions; low-frequency distortions; modulation frequency; optical injection locking; second harmonic distortion; third harmonic distortion; third-order intermodulation distortion; Distributed feedback devices; Harmonic distortion; Injection-locked oscillators; Laser feedback; Laser noise; Nonlinear optics; Optical distortion; Optical feedback; Optical modulation; Semiconductor lasers;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Microwave Theory and Techniques, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9480

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/22.775454

Filename

775454