Measurement of the comb dynamics for feedback control of an etalon-based coupled optoelectronic oscillator

    Authors

    F. Quinlan; C. Williams; S. Ozharar;P. J. Delfyett

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    Abbreviated Journal Title

    Opt. Lett.

    Keywords

    FREQUENCY COMBS; LASER; Optics

    Abstract

    The response of an optical frequency comb from an etalon-based coupled optoelectronic oscillator to changes in drive current, optoelectronic loop phase, modulator bias, and laser cavity length has been measured. It is found that controlling the phase of the optoelectronic loop is best suited for control of the pulse repetition rate, whereas controlling the laser cavity length is best for stabilization of the optical carrier frequency. Moreover, by measuring the instabilities of the carrier frequency at the fixed-point frequency of the optoelectronic phase, changes to the optoelectronic phase can be decoupled from changes to the laser cavity. (C) 2008 Optical Society of America.

    Journal Title

    Optics Letters

    Volume

    33

    Issue/Number

    13

    Publication Date

    1-1-2008

    Document Type

    Article

    Language

    English

    First Page

    1422

    Last Page

    1424

    WOS Identifier

    WOS:000258017800010

    ISSN

    0146-9592

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