Semiconductor laser-based optoelectronics oscillators

X. Steve Yao; Lute Maleki; Chi Wu; Lawrence J. Davis; Siamak Forouhar

doi:10.1117/12.319644

19 August 1998 Semiconductor laser-based optoelectronics oscillators

X. Steve Yao, Lute Maleki, Chi Wu, Lawrence J. Davis, Siamak Forouhar

Proceedings Volume 3547, Semiconductor Lasers III; (1998) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.319644
Event: Photonics China '98, 1998, Beijing, China

Abstract

We demonstrate the realization of coupled opto-electronic oscillators (COEO) with different semiconductor lasers, including a ring laser, a Fabry-Perot laser, and a colliding pulse mode-locked laser. Each COEO can simultaneously generate short optical pulses and spectrally pure RF signals. With these devices, we obtained optical pulses as short as 6 picoseconds and RF signals as high in frequency as 18 GHz with a spectral purity comparable with a HP8561B synthesizer. These experiments demonstrate that COEOs are promising compact sources for generating low jitter optical pulses and low phase noise RF/millimeter wave signals.

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X. Steve Yao, Lute Maleki, Chi Wu, Lawrence J. Davis, and Siamak Forouhar "Semiconductor laser-based optoelectronics oscillators", Proc. SPIE 3547, Semiconductor Lasers III, (19 August 1998); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.319644

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