Title :
Exact optical frequency synthesis over >1 THz using SG-DBR lasers
Author :
Silva, C.F.C. ; Seeds, Alwyn J. ; Langley, Lloyd N.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. & Electr. Eng., Univ. Coll. London, UK
Abstract :
Summary form only given. We report an exact optical frequency synthesis technique for WDM applications using optical injection locking of a widely tunable sampled grating (SG) DBR laser, the slave laser, to lines from a comb of optical frequencies generated by an all-fibre comb generator master laser. Unwanted lines from the comb are suppressed for locking ranges narrower than the comb frequency spacing.
Keywords :
distributed Bragg reflector lasers; laser cavity resonators; laser mirrors; laser tuning; optical pulse generation; semiconductor lasers; WDM applications; all-fibre comb generator master laser; comb of optical frequencies; exact optical frequency synthesis; optical injection locking; sampled grating DBR laser; widely tunable laser; Distributed Bragg reflectors; Frequency synthesizers; Masers; Microwave generation; Wavelength division multiplexing;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe, 2000. Conference Digest. 2000 Conference on
Conference_Location :
Nice
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6319-1
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOE.2000.909976
