Spectral line narrowing of a photonically generated microwave frequency comb with vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser mode-locked coupled oscillators
Optics Letters, Vol. 30, Issue 3, pp. 266-268 (2005)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OL.30.000266
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Abstract
A technique is presented for narrowing the spectral linewidth of microwave signals generated photonically by heterodyning a pair of vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers forming an extended optically coupled cavity. The experimentally demonstrated linewidth reduction, by as much as a factor of 10^4 - to less than 10 kHz in microwave frequencies up to a couple of gigahertz - is approximately ten times that expected with conventional line-narrowing techniques such as optical feedback. An interpretation is given in terms of mode locking in pairs of optically coupled lasers as a first demonstration in the frequency domain of lag synchronization of coupled oscillators. The results of theoretical modeling agree well with the experimental results.
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OCIS Codes
(140.3410) Lasers and laser optics : Laser resonators
(140.4050) Lasers and laser optics : Mode-locked lasers
(230.4910) Optical devices : Oscillators
(250.7260) Optoelectronics : Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers
(300.3700) Spectroscopy : Linewidth
(350.4010) Other areas of optics : Microwaves
Citation
H. Music and L. R. Pendrill, "Spectral line narrowing of a photonically generated microwave frequency
comb with vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser mode-locked
coupled oscillators," Opt. Lett. 30, 266-268 (2005)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/ol/abstract.cfm?URI=ol-30-3-266
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