STABILIZATION OF MILLIMETER-WAVE FREQUENCIES FROM PASSIVELY MODE-LOCKED SEMICONDUCTOR-LASERS USING AN OPTOELECTRONIC PHASE-LOCKED LOOP

被引:15
作者
BUCKMAN, LA
GEORGES, JB
PARK, J
VASSILOVSKI, D
KAHN, JM
LAU, KY
机构
[1] Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley
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10.1109/68.248406
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TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
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0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
We report the use of an optoelectronic phase-locked loop to stabilize the pulsation frequency of a three-section, passively mode-locked quantum well laser diode at 41 GHz. It is shown that the free-running mode-locked signal, with a radio frequency (RF) linewidth of 770 kHz, can be stabilized to the linewidth of a reference RF oscillator (< 1 kHz). The stabilized mode-locked signal has a phase noise of -70 dBc/Hz at 370 kHz offset. Tracking of the mode-locked signal to the external reference RF oscillator is maintained over 11 MHz. This is, in effect, an actively mode-locked laser source at 41 GHz.
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页码:1137 / 1140
页数:4
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