Optical generation of a highly coherent microwave signal by heterodyne phase locking two grating coupled external cavity semiconductor lasers

Author

Fan, Zhencan Frank ; Heim, Peter J S ; Dagenais, Mario

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Maryland Univ., College Park, MD, USA

Volume

1

fYear

1997

fDate

10-13 Nov 1997

Firstpage

395

Abstract

Summary form only given. In summary, two 830 nm external cavity semiconductor lasers were phase locked by using a discriminator-aided phase locked loop. A microwave signal with very low phase noise and less than mHz centre carrier linewidth was achieved

Keywords

demodulation; diffraction gratings; electro-optical modulation; laser cavity resonators; laser mode locking; laser noise; laser transitions; microwave generation; optical couplers; optical phase locked loops; optical transmitters; phase noise; semiconductor lasers; spectral line breadth; 830 nm; discriminator-aided phase locked loop; external cavity semiconductor laser phase locking; grating coupled external cavity semiconductor lasers; heterodyne phase locking; highly coherent microwave signal optical generation; laser mode locking; mHz centre carrier linewidth; microwave signal; optical communications equipment; optical transmitters; very low phase noise; Bandwidth; Frequency; Gratings; Holographic optical components; Holography; Masers; Microwave generation; Optical mixing; Semiconductor laser arrays; Signal generators;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting, 1997. LEOS '97 10th Annual Meeting. Conference Proceedings., IEEE

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

ISSN

1092-8081

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3895-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.1997.630687

Filename

630687