Optical generation of a precise microwave frequency comb by harmonic frequency locking
Optics Letters, Vol. 32, Issue 13, pp. 1917-1919 (2007)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OL.32.001917
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Abstract
A semiconductor laser under negative optoelectronic feedback is applied to the generation of a microwave frequency comb through the nonlinear dynamics. The laser system is operated in a harmonic frequency-locked pulsing state, where its power spectrum is a microwave frequency comb that consists of multiples of a locking frequency. Every frequency component of the comb can be simultaneously stabilized by simply injecting an external microwave modulation at any component of the comb. This phenomenon can be viewed as a kind of microwave injection locking of the laser dynamics.
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OCIS Codes
(140.2020) Lasers and laser optics : Diode lasers
(140.3520) Lasers and laser optics : Lasers, injection-locked
(140.5960) Lasers and laser optics : Semiconductor lasers
(350.4010) Other areas of optics : Microwaves
ToC Category:
Lasers and Laser Optics
History
Original Manuscript: February 26, 2007
Revised Manuscript: May 1, 2007
Manuscript Accepted: May 7, 2007
Published: June 25, 2007
Citation
Sze-Chun Chan, Guang-Qiong Xia, and Jia-Ming Liu, "Optical generation of a precise microwave frequency comb by harmonic frequency locking," Opt. Lett. 32, 1917-1919 (2007)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/ol/abstract.cfm?URI=ol-32-13-1917
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