• DocumentCode
    776513
  • Title

    Degradation of microwave signals generated by a modelocked semiconductor laser due to up-conversion of low-frequency noise

  • Author

    Lima, C.R. ; Davies, P.A.

  • Author_Institution
    Electron. Eng. Labs., Kent Univ., Canterbury, UK
  • Volume
    31
  • Issue
    8
  • fYear
    1995
  • fDate
    4/13/1995 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    641
  • Lastpage
    642
  • Abstract
    The authors show that the frequency up-conversion of low-frequency noise present in drive oscillators can degrade the performance of microwave signals produced by a modelocked semiconductor laser. Experiments with low-frequency noise injection are used to demonstrate this effect. The results show also that the filtering effect of the external cavity resonances serves to reduce the sidebands of the up-converted low-frequency noise
  • Keywords
    laser cavity resonators; laser mode locking; laser noise; microwave generation; semiconductor lasers; drive oscillators; external cavity resonances; filtering effect; frequency up-conversion; low-frequency noise up-conversion; microwave signal degradation; modelocked semiconductor laser; sideband reduction;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electronics Letters
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0013-5194
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/el:19950458
  • Filename
    384006
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=776513