Title

Subcarrier frequency enhancement of two-section Fabry-Perot laser diodes using external optical injection

Authors

Authors

X. H. Wang;G. F. Li

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Abbreviated Journal Title

Opt. Commun.

Keywords

self-sustained pulsation; optical injection; subcarrier multiplexing; Optics

Abstract

Two-section Fabry-Perot laser diodes can produce tunable radio frequency (rf)/microwave intensity oscillations (subcarrier) on the optical carrier without any active rf/microwave components. The frequency of the subcarrier is limited to a few Gigahertz for the free-running two-section Fabry-Perot laser diodes. A method for enhancing the frequency of the optically-generated subcarriers by using external optical injection is analyzed and demonstrated experimentally. It is shown that external optical injection can increase the effective tuning range: by 70%, in the meantime reducing the power in the high-order harmonics. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

Journal Title

Optics Communications

Volume

171

Issue/Number

1-3

Publication Date

1-1-1999

Document Type

Article

Language

English

First Page

113

Last Page

118

WOS Identifier

WOS:000083960700018

ISSN

0030-4018

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