Resonant cavity linear interferometric intensity modulator

    Authors

    N. Hoghooghi; I. Ozdur; M. Akbulut; J. Davila-Rodriguez;P. J. Delfyett

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    Abbreviated Journal Title

    Opt. Lett.

    Keywords

    LINKS; Optics

    Abstract

    We propose an intensity modulator based on injection locking of a resonant cavity with gain that has a linear transfer function, multigigahertz bandwidth, possible optical gain, and very low V(pi). The arcsine phase response of the injection-locked resonant cavity placed in one arm of a Mach-Zehnder interferometer is the key to the true linear performance of this modulator. The first (to our knowledge) demonstration of this modulator with 5 GHz bandwidth, V(pi) of similar to 2.6 mV, and 95 dB spur-free dynamic range is reported here. (C) 2010 Optical Society of America

    Journal Title

    Optics Letters

    Volume

    35

    Issue/Number

    8

    Publication Date

    1-1-2010

    Document Type

    Article

    Language

    English

    First Page

    1218

    Last Page

    1220

    WOS Identifier

    WOS:000276861100035

    ISSN

    0146-9592

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