• DocumentCode
    853187
  • Title

    Externally modulated mode-locked laser diodes for microwave transmission links

  • Author

    Kellner, A.L. ; Lam, Bryant C. ; Yan, G.S. ; Yu, Paul K. L.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., California Univ., San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
  • Volume
    25
  • Issue
    19
  • fYear
    1989
  • Firstpage
    1291
  • Lastpage
    1293
  • Abstract
    An externally modulated mode-locked laser diode is proposed to transmit high centre frequency, fractional bandwidth microwave signals over optical fibres. The authors demonstrate the feasibility of this scheme using an external Bragg cell to modulate (at 68.7 MHz) an actively mode-locked laser diode (mode-locked at 2.05 GHz).
  • Keywords
    laser mode locking; microwave links; optical communication equipment; optical fibres; optical links; optical modulation; semiconductor junction lasers; 2.05 GHz; 68.7 MHz; external Bragg cell; externally modulated laser; fractional bandwidth microwave signals; microwave transmission links; mode-locked laser diodes; optical communication equipment; optical fibres; semiconductor lasers;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electronics Letters
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0013-5194
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/el:19890864
  • Filename
    46186