Title :
A highly integrated optical phase-locked loop for laser wavelength stabilization
Author :
Lu, Mingzhi ; Park, Hyunchul ; Bloch, Eli ; Sivananthan, Abirami ; Griffith, Zach ; Johansson, Leif A. ; Rodwell, Mark J. ; Coldren, Larry A.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Abstract :
A highly integrated optical phase-locked loop (OPLL) has been applied to stabilize the semiconductor laser wavelength for the first time. Preliminary results show that the slave laser is stably phase-locked to a reference laser within 2.2 K temperature fluctuation.
Keywords :
laser mode locking; laser stability; optical phase locked loops; semiconductor lasers; integrated optical phase-locked loop; laser wavelength stabilization; reference laser; semiconductor laser wavelength; slave laser; stably phase-locked; temperature fluctuation; Integrated optics; Laser feedback; Laser stability; Laser tuning; Optical receivers; Phase frequency detector; coherent; optical frequency synthesis; optical phase-locked loop; wavelength stabilization;
Conference_Titel :
Photonics Conference (IPC), 2012 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Burlingame, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0731-5
DOI :
10.1109/IPCon.2012.6359258
