Title :
Intensity noise reduction in an hybrid III-V/Silicon laser using a gain saturated SOA
Author :
Nils Girard;Ghaya Baili;Pascale Nouchi;Daniel Dolfi;Alain Accard;Peter Kaspar;Dalila Make;Michael Faugeron;Jean-Guy Provost;Fr?d?ric Van Dijk;Romain Brenot;Segolene Olivier;Stephan Malhouitre;Christophe Kopp;Guang-Hua Duan
Author_Institution :
Thales Research and Technology, 1 Avenue A. Fresnel, 91767 Palaiseau cedex, France
Abstract :
Using a gain saturated SOA as a high-pass filter, we reduce the intensity noise of a hybrid III-V/Silicon laser by 8 dB around the relaxation oscillation frequency and up to 12dB around 100MHz leading to a Relative Intensity Noise (RIN) below -145 dB/Hz from 100 MHz to 20 GHz.
Keywords :
"Semiconductor optical amplifiers","Photonics","Gain","Oscillators","Noise reduction","Decision support systems","III-V semiconductor materials"
Conference_Titel :
Microwave Photonics (MWP), 2015 International Topical Meeting on
DOI :
10.1109/MWP.2015.7356705
