Semiconductor laser sources for externally modulated microwave analog links

被引:12
作者
Betts, GE
Donnelly, JP
Walpole, JN
Groves, SH
ODonnell, FJ
Missaggia, LJ
Bailey, RJ
Napoleone, A
机构
[1] Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
关键词
laser noise; optical analog links; optical modulation; semiconductor lasers; semiconductor optical amplifiers;
D O I
10.1109/22.618422
中图分类号
TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
学科分类号
0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
High-performance semiconductor continous-wave (CW) sources are demonstrated in this paper, which include a Fabry-Perot (FP) laser oscillator (Ld)) with relative intensity noise (RIN) < -165 dB/Hz at frequencies above 500 MHz, and a tapered semiconductor optical amplifier with 35-dB gain, a maximum output power of 820 mW, and RIN approximate to -155 dB/Hz at microwave frequencies, These are used in suboctave-bandwidth analog links to demonstrate link performance comparable to that available with solid-state laser sources.
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页码:1280 / 1287
页数:8
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